Word: launch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...launch, "John Harvard," which was sold recently to the University of Wisconsin navy, has arrived at Madison and will be thoroughly overhauled before being launched next spring. The launch was built by Riley and Cowley of Brooklyn in 1893 and has been in use at Harvard ever since...
HARVARD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, June 22.- The Harvard crew practiced starts and rowed extremely well a short time this evening. The Freshmen did not launch their boat...
...looked as if the race would certainly be rowed. There was a clear sky and light wind from the west. The observation train and big steamboats, crowded with spectators, moved up to the start. At the same time the Cornell crew put out from their quarters in the launch, and with the shell in tow started for Red Top, the quarters of the Harvard crew. From the press boat it could be seen that the Harvard crew were getting down their boat and had shipped their oars preparatory to starting the race. Over at Gale's Ferry there...
HARVARD QUARTERS, NEW LONDON, June 20.- The 'Varsity crew practically completed its hard practice before the race on Wednesday today, for tomorrow the time will be given over chiefly to practicing racing starts. This morning there was no rowing and the crew did not launch its shell until 6.30 p. m. Mr. Lehmann coached from the launch and was accompanied by J. Fay 69, a member of the '69 crew, Dr. W. A. Brooks '88, Dr. W. A. Conant and a number of undergraduates who have recently arrived at New London...
...feeling between the three crews is noticeably good. Casual visits have been exchanged between Harvard and Yale. During the indisposition of the "Frank Thomson" the Yale launch was put at our disposal. The crews watch each other frankly and there is none of the spying that has sometimes been carried on in former years...