Word: blakey
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BLAKEY has finished the eight-oared barge for the University crew. It is built of white-pine, with mahogany wash-boards. A small keel covered with iron will protect the bottom in some degree from shoals and other obstructions. The dimensions are 47 feet by 38 inches; those of a six-oared barge are 44 feet by 26 inches...
...management. No student will pay $15 a year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs find it so difficult to obtain a membership sufficiently numerous to indemnify Mr. Blakey and fulfil their contract, and how may this state of things be improved...
...University Crew has ordered an eight-oared barge with a seat for a coxswain. It will be built by Blakey, and will be ready for use when the river opens...
...while the Reading-Room has recovered its footing, the Boat-Clubs are fast sinking into the slough of debt. It would seem that it is almost entirely through Mr. Blakey's generosity that the clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there...
...Blakey's profit is too high, which seems impossible at the present rate, since the boats will need to be renewed every three or four years, the club officers should investigate the matter, and ask him to reduce his charges, instead of allowing men to think that he "exacts" or "extorts" too much. Mr. Blakey has assured us that he is willing to act fairly toward the students and reduce the assessment as soon as it is possible; we therefore hope that, if the club officers have reason to think that $15 a year is too much, they will publish...