Word: launching
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...launch "Veritas" was hauled out and beached beside the new boat house yesterday morning. The John Harvard will be handed out beside her at once...
...clock yesterday afternoon. The meeting at the boat house was attended by about eight hundred students who had marched down from the Yard with the University band. The speakers, President Eliot, Professor Hollis, Edmund Wetmore '06 and A. G. Fox '65 came up to the boat house in the launch "John Harvard," together with Major Higginson h. '82, E. C. Storrow '89, G. W. Weld '60 and others...
...Newell club, the first and second graded crews were followed by the launch in a time-row over the regular course. The second crew was given a start of a length and a half, but the first made the course in quicker time, 9ms., 20s., the second finished in 9ms., 37s. On the home stretch a further test was made, and this time the first Newell eight did 15 strokes in 22 seconds. The order of the first crew is as follows: Stroke, Brownell; 7, Blake; 6, Bullard; 5, Henderson; 4, Perkins; 3, Swain; 2, Morris: bow, Goodell...
...well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...
...University Boat House about October 10th, when the old boat house will be abandoned for the new one. Two new runways have been constructed, having the trusses below instead of above the planking, and thereby enabling the crews to carry shells down to the float more easily. The Weld launch "Veritas" will not be in commission this fall, but the "John Harvard" will be at the service of both clubs...