This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... barge, thirty-seven feet long (the winning boat in a mechanics' regatta at Chelsea), and organized the "Oneida Boat Club" A few weeks later, some seniors in like manner organized the " Iris Boat Club." the Oneida was kept in a shed just across the Brighton bridge; the Iris was uioored in the stream. The two clubs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... barge, thirty-seven feet long (the winning boat in a mechanics' regatta at Chelsea), and organized the "Oneida Boat Club" A few weeks later, some seniors in like manner organized the " Iris Boat Club." the Oneida was kept in a shed just across the Brighton bridge; the Iris was uioored in the stream. The two clubs adopted fancy uniforms, and built pressing rooms on the wharf. A race soon took place, the course being from L little below Brighton, down through the bridge, and the Oneida won. In ihe spring of 1846 the clubs, then three in number, built a boat house a little below the college coal wharf. Such was the beginning of boating at Harvard. In those days there were no inter-collegiate races, with the consequent neceslity of training hard for the honor of the college; and rowing was engaged in for fun, pure and simple. All sorts of excursions were made. At one time the Oneidas visited Hull, and took young ladies out in the boat; at another thev were entertained by the midshipmen on board the frigate Cumberland, in Boston Harbor; and once they received the Boston clubs at the boat house, which was decorated for the convivial occasion. In 1852 a challenge was received from Yale. Harvard had no crew and but one boat, the Oneida, then ten years old. Eight men were hastily selected, who rowed together only three or four times, for fear of blistering their hands. The race took place on Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, and the Oneida won, receiving as a prize the black walnut oars now kept among the trophies of the dub. Another race was rowed under similar circumstances, and with a like result, at Springfield, July 21, 1855. The Oneida was kept till 1856, and then sold to Dartmouth. Soon after she was washed over a dam and lost, at the advance...
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