Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer's bow. The Captain of the City of Rome set up a warning shriek of his whistles. He ordered the helm hard astarboard and the engines full speed astern. It was too late...
...members of last year's University eight have returned to college, and five are in Coach Stevens' first boat. The new men are the bow three, Perkins and Barry from the 1925 second eight and Dunlop from last spring's Freshman crew. On the second crew, Winthrop, brother of the captain; Howe, and Watts rowed in the 1928 boat, while Page is also a sophomore, ineligible last season. Iselin, Gates, Righter, and Canning have all been on the University squad for two years, Iselin having captained the junior university crew last June. Of the coxswains, Beer steered the second crew...
...returned to the University coaching staff after a year's absence, had little trouble in choosing his first 150-pound crew. The eight that he picked is the same aggregation which defeated Yale and Princeton last spring. The second lightweight crew is made up mainly of the first 1928 boat, all of the men being Sophomores. The line-ups of the first two 150-pound crews follows...
...work necessary to put the job over is in the boat," he declared. "You came here to get an education, and rowing is not going to stand in your way. We demand good scholarship at the boathouses. If you must sacrifice either rowing or scholarship, then rowing must go by the board. We do not fear for rowing, however, because we know it is easy to do both. Fifty per cent of the men on last year's University and Freshman crews were on the Dean's List, and at least one man was Phi Beta Kappa...
...Conn. No one could make gutta percha like they could, on a big marble table, you know. Well, one time Mr. Day said he couldn't sell me any more rubber casings. Said he'd made a contract with Waterman. I put all my machinery on a boat and sailed it down to Baltimore. . . I advertised on P. T. Barnum's first circus program. . . When they put up the Flatiron building, they flashed 'The Lancaster Pen' against it with a stereopticon machine. Once I printed a Sunday paper to give away. . . My wife...