Word: boating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat house is entirely covered in and the men are engaged in putting in the windows. The studding for the partitions are in place and the arrangement of the upper floor can now be plainly seen. A long hall with lockers around the four sides will occupy most of the floor, the space on each side of the stairway being used for bathrooms. The lower floor will be devoted to the storing of boats. Two large doors open from this floor out onto a large platform from which the floats are reached. Over this platform is a long balcony...
...statement of the financial condition of the Baseball association which has a debt of $413.25 due to the falling off in receipts from the Yale games and the reduction in the price of season tickets from $5 to $2.50, comes a short summary of the affairs of the Boat club: The expenses during the last college year were $10,076.17, of which $3.496 was paid for a new steam-launch an unusual expense, which was met chiefly by graduate subscriptions; $880 went for new boats, and $500 for the for the tank in which the crews practice rowing during...
...reply to your letter of December 3 asking us to arrange with Cornell for a boat race at New London next June, I would say that Yale intends hereafter to row with Harvard, and with no other American University...
...candidates to pay expenses. Will you tell these men that it will cost them nothing but an hour's labor each day; that in order to find out who are the best men we must try them all? Even if some men fail to get a seat in the boat they will have made the successful candidates work hard for their places...
...Simms and James. Some of the old men were not present at the meeting, but will row. Captain Allen believes that the true secret of Yale's success lies in her system of careful training rather than in the Cook stroke, and the men who sit in Yale's boat next June will be better trained than any previous crew, if that be possible...