Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...comprises twelve schools in and around Boston. They are Noble and Greenough's, Volkman, Boston Latin, Stone's, Roxbury Latin, Cambridge High and Latin, Mechanics Art, English High, Waltham High, Brookline High, Browne and Nichols and Chauncy Hall. The regular meeting will be held in January and the annual regatta will be held in May under the auspices of the B. A. A. The all interscholastic crew will then be selected. Of the prominent men who rowed last year the following have entered Harvard: Roberts, Bent, Warner, George, Locke, Adams, Jackson, Piper, Walcott, Ayer and Boardman, and six of these...
Efforts are being made at Pennsylvania to send a crew to next spring's Henley Regatta and a track team to Paris to take part in the Exposition games...
...pursuance of the regular plan for fall rowing, after Tuesday's regatta graded crews were picked at the Weld. These crews began rowing yesterday, and will continue in training until the middle of November, when races will be arranged with corresponding crews at the Newell. The Newell crews, which have been rowing for some time with no regular make-up, will be graded this afternoon. There will be two crews at each boat-house, and more if a sufficient number of men continue rowing...
...annual fall regatta of the Weld boat club was held yesterday afternoon under excellent weather conditions. The course for all the races was a third of a mile straightaway from the first turn of the river above the Boylston street bridge to a point about a hundred yards from the bridge...
...forced to run into him to keep from going ashore. George finished a half a length ahead, but the race was given to Wheelwright. The race for four oared shells was won by only ten feet with both crews spurting at a high stroke. The best event of the regatta was the race of the eight-oared shells. In the first heat the Sophomores were barely able to win from the Freshmen by half a length. The second heat, between the Law School and the Junior Weld crews was a better rowed race and was almost as close...