Word: towed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...items of the debt were as follows: E. E. Water & Sons, due on shell, $206.00; '88 class crew, for one half-cost of boat broken in halves by the boat club last year, $181; Boston Tow Boat Company, for lifting launch on and off the cars, $80; class race flags, $50; Gynne & Co., $3; Gordon Dexter, for running expenses of launch last year, $161; C. D. Wilder & Co., $4.75, and $50 due Thomas Fearson on a pair-oared bought...
...American painter, Paul Reubens Smith. The closing pages of the magazine are entirely devoted to "Art Notes," which form a budget of interesting facts to artists. Apart from the literary merit of the magazine there are some extremely fine illustrations, the first of which is an etching representing "The Tow at Twilight," a scene taken from Long Island Sound. Besides this there are three exceedingly well executed photogravures...
...soon as all the crews have passed through the draw, a long whistle will be sounded from the Referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four tow boats will be moored, at distances of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...
...Boston Tow Boat...
...point in which the meeting could have been improved was in the matter of heating the gymnasium, for the temperature of the building was so low that the many ladies present must have experienced positive discomfort. In the matter of prizes the record of Saturday stood: '85, two; '86, tow; '87, one; '88, one; Law School, one. The fence vault was won by Mr. Cary, '86, but this will be counted to the credit of '85, inasmuch as the handicap is disregarded in events which count for the class pennant. The record of the classes in regard to events...