Word: bobbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Charles Dickens gives a reading tonight in Tremont Temple, Boston. This is his last appearance here. He will read from Dombey and Son and Bob Sawyer's Party...
...most of the old men will resume work. Percy Bolton is studying medicine in Chicago, and will be unable to give his valuable assistance in coaching the crew. This duty will therefore devolve upon Captain Sternness and ex-Captain Cowles and Rogers, who will be under the direction of Bob Cook...
Captain Stevenson will coach the crew, and a more earnest coach Yale has not had for many a day. It is believed that "Bob" Cook will look after their training, and ex-Captain John Rogers will also render valuable assistance. There is much valuable material this year in the freshman class, and in the recent rushes they showed that there was plenty of grit and muscle. The members do not propose to take a "back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have...
...proposition of "Bob" Cook that Yale, who is now at the top of the heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard...
...suggestion made by "Bob" Cook through the medium of the press about a week ago, that the Yale eight sail across the briny deep and do battle with the winner of the great Oxford Cambridge boat race, has aroused in tense interest and enthusiasm among the Yale students and alumni, and has been favorably received all over the country. The fact that no Yale eight ever measured oars with their British cousins lends additional interest to the proposed contest. The only race of an international character in which Yale ever engaged was the centennial regatta, which...