Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheduled regatta in the Gloncester dories which was to have been held before the game was postponed until a late hour in the evening because the Metropolitan police thought it would be unwise for 16 Lampoon editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...
...remaining two places in the competition go to "Stuart Whitney Cook '32, of Concord who will be Chairman of the Regatta Committee, and to Hoyt Landon Warner, Jr. '32, of Cleveland, Ohio, who will assist Cook on the Regatta Committee...
...welkin rang in proverbial style at Gerry's Landing up the Charles yesterday evening as final preparations for the tornadic CRIMSON-Lampoon regatta, scheduled for 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, were completed. Merwomen prinked, pollywogs warbled, as two specially designed Gloucester herring chasers were launched with solomn rites on the star-flecked upper reaches of the local stream...
...regatta on the Charles on Saturday between the Harvard and Yale class crews, 150-pound eights, both University and Freshman, and the second 150-pound crews, will provide the weekend rowing spectacle in Cambridge. The Eli eights arrive this afternoon and will probably get in a short paddle this evening as well as two regular workouts tomorrow...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...