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Work has been started on the new Yale boathouse at Gale's Ferry. The building, which will be 42 feet wide and 85 feet in length will be supported on piles. At one end a platform will be constructed with large aprons and a 60 foot float extending out over the water. The boatroom, which takes up most of the first floor, contains ample room for extra shells and oar racks. Dressing and shower rooms will be on the same floor. Servants will have separate quarters on the second floor. The exterior of the boathouse will be painted white...
...flood the first and second University boats lined up on the two-mile mark. The race was close and exciting throughout. At one time the first was nearly a length ahead, but the second cut the lead to a question of feet at the finish just off the float. The unofficial time for the race was 9.30. In the next race, the substitute or "gentlemen's" four, consisting of the two University subs., Busk and Herrick, and the two Freshman subs, Lovell and Baker, outstripped the Freshman four by a full length in one mile. The unofficial time...
...practice was very light. The morning practice, which Coach Wray directed from his single, consisted of a few short-brushes between the Freshmen and the second crew, in which the latter showed a slight superiority. The boat of the Freshman four filled with water and sank just as the float was reached. In the afternoon the crews paddled down to the Navy Yard, which is the half-way mark in the course. This time the Freshmen had several sharp tussles with the University but were beaten even with the University rowing a slower stroke. In spite of the weather...
...boat was carried from the Newell Club House to the lower side of the bridge, where an improvised float allowed the men to get on board. In the open water between the Stadium and the Cottage Farm Bridge, crew A made three trips back and forth. There was no attempt to raise the stroke, and the work of the oarsmen was satisfactory for so early in the season. Crews B and C made two trips between the bridges, and the other crews rowed in the tank under the direction of Coach Brown...
...greater part of the cargoes of most of these vessels, like those of the shingle boats that children freight for journeys down a brook, may well be jettisoned; but doubtless with many a hapless cargo some things really worth saving go down. A few light, gay, shiny bits do float, and sail gaily down life's brook, sparkling in the sunlight even brighter than the ripples of the stream. There are people who have been known to chase a "continued story" through the numbers of a bound volume of a magazine, but most of us nothing but a rainy afternoon...