Word: watertown
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rows are usually four or five miles long, on which the crew is followed by the coach in another boat, and stopped often for instruction. Every few days a longer journey is taken to give the men a chance to get together. On Saturday last the row was to Watertown and back. The speed was fair, and the men kept the boat unusually steady for this time of the season...
...After the battle of Lexington the militia began to concentrate at Cambridge, and the students were ordered to leave. Some of the buildings were turned into barracks for the soldiers, and the officers were quartered in private houses and in the President's house. The Provincial Congress, meeting at Watertown, June, 1775, resolved that the Harvard Library and philosophical apparatus be removed to Andover. A meeting of the Corporation in July voted that a public Commencement was impracticable, and that degrees be conferred by a general diploma; and soon after the Overseers voted to remove the College to Concord, having...
...with them nine men, one of whom returns to Williams to-day. John Gunster, their last year's stroke and now of the Nassau and Athletic Boat-Clubs, also accompanies them. The crew rows twice a day between ten and one in the morning, and in the afternoon to Watertown and back. This evening at 6.30 they will row over the Union Boat-House Course on time, in their new shell. The crew will return to Williams next week, to pass their annual examinations, and on the 3d of July they expect to go to Saratoga...
...hundred and forty years have passed since a "school or college" was founded by the "General Court" on the then verdant banks of Charles River. In those good old days Gown reigned supreme; the boating-men could have rowed a race from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond...
...Hooker, Watertown, N. Y.; class '77; age, 20; weight, 155 lbs.; height...