Word: basin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a race of the four University 150-pound crews this afternoon over the Henley course on the Charles River Basin, the first and second lightweight crews will be picked by Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 for the first race of the season at Kent School on Wednesday, April 10. After a series of short races this afternoon the Freshman squad will also undergo a rearrangement...
...Senior eight stroked by S.W. Swaim '31 upset the supremacy of the Sophomore B crew stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 by defeating the latter in a slow mile and three quarter race in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
...last meeting of the Schoolboy Rowing Association it was decided to hold the annual Schoolboy Regatta, which is sponsored by Harvard, in the Charles River Basin on Saturday June 1. The event which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...
...length lead which a Sophomore eight stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 had gained in the early minutes of a mile and a half race, another 1931 crew with C. McK. Norton '29 in the stroke seat won out over five class crews in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. The winning crew with the exception of the stroke was the same that was piloted to victory by R. I. McKesson '31 on Tuesday afternoon. The race was rowed from above the Cottage Farm Bridge to a point about a quarter of a mile beyond the Harvard Bridge...
...improvement as a whole would increase the park and play ground area, would relieve traffic congestion, would tie in with other traffic arteries which are being planned, would complete the park system along the Basin, and would do all this at a minimum cost as compared with street widenings or park construction in more built-up parts of the district. It would add greatly to the beauty of the Basin...