Word: week
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carey Building is almost completed, and although it will be two weeks or more before the work will be completely finished, the cage will probably be in good enough condition to permit its being used next week...
...Sophomore crew seems to be finally settled in this order: Stroke, Higginson; 7, Biddle; 6, Byrd; 5, Heath; 4, Lee; 3, Glidden; 2, Harding; bow, Bedford. Mr. J. J. Storrow is coaching three times a week. The stern six in this crew are identical with those in the Freshman boat last year; Harding and Bedford rowed in the Freshman Weld crew last year...
With the rowing of this week the three upper class crews will have finished their work in the heavy barges and begun the actual preparation for the race in their light ships. The Senior crew made the change unexpectedly yesterday on account of the damage done to their barge, which ran aground Tuesday. Ninety-nine expect to get into their new shell by the end of the week, when Davy expects to have it ready. The two Freshman eights, although going fairly well in their barges, will not be ready to change into the more unsteady shells for another week...
Only two changes have been made in the '99 boat since the crew first went to the river. J. F. Perkins who was unable to row last week, has gone in at 7, and Marvin who had been rowing there went to bow, supplanting Swift who is now rowing 3 on the second crew. This crew is at present the heaviest on the river, the men averaging 175 pounds. They have shown a good deal of hurry in their work thus far, rushing their recover badly. Nelson Perkins coached yesterday and as a result the crew made a marked improvement...
Today both boat houses of the Weld Boat club, which hitherto have only been open to the crews, will be ready for the use of all members. The baths, however, will not be in order until the end of the week, on account of fear of injuring the water pipes from freezing...