Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CANOE CLUB. - The fall regatta will be held to-morrow on the Charles River Basin. Two races will be contested; one set at 11 o'clock, a class B unlimit-sailing race over a three mile triangular course; the other a limited sail area race for class B canoes. First and second prizes to consist of silk banners are offered for each race...
...monument to John Howard stands is a place of great historic interest. The team "The Delta" which it today bears has become restricted in meaning and applies only to what was originally a small portion of a place of much greater extent. The old Delta embraced the entire triangular space enclosed between Quincy and Kirkland streets and Broadway. It was used many years ago as the "play-ground" of the students and was the first gymnasium that Harvard ever possessed. It is not known when it first came into possession of the college, but "Appleton pasture" of which the Delta...
...Canoe Club, and the second since its formation last spring, was held Saturday morning on the Lower Basin of the Charles river. The number of spectators was extremely limited, but the one event contested, the paddling race, in two classes, was well contested. The course was made triangular, so that the canoeists might show their ability in sailing, both before and on the wind. It started from the Union Boat Club house, to a point half a mile northwest and thence to a point half a mile east of the starting point. This made a length one and a half...
...Canoe Club burgee has arrived and gives general satisfaction. It is triangular in shape, and is made of crimson silk, on which is a gold shield surrounded by a circle. On the shield is painted in ivory black a large...
...college since the time of President Holyoke, 1737-1769. It was presented to him by the Rev. Ebenezer Terrell, of Medford. This worthy man was connected in marriage with the famous Mathers, by one of whom the chair is said to have been brought from England. It is triangular in shape and resembles many chairs found in the pleasant cottages of Herefordshire at the beginning of the last century. The wooden knobs which ornament the back were turned by President Holyoke himself. Now it is only used on Commencement Day, when the President as the head of the whole university...