Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry and Tom Pollock, Jim Tew, Paul Gunderson, and coxswain Ed Washburn make up the first four-oared boat from Harvard to enter the Olympics since 1936. The earlier crew lost to a German boat...
...team made the Olympic team by a fairly roundabout route. All five men were members of Harvard's national-championship eight, which entered the Olympic trials and lost by two lengths to the Vesper Boat Club eight from Philadelphia...
Coach Harry Parker's boat had beaten every college crew in the country and Parker felt his oarsmen were among the best. He broke up the boat into two "fours," and the "four with cox" proved him accurate by scoring a one-length victory in a second series of Olympic trials in August...
...Rocking the Boat...
...Faculty members will oppose this broad conception, will maintain that departmental education is solely adequate for a liberal education. A more substantial number may insist on "not rocking the boat" and suggest that the present program adequately attains these goals, and argue that a further expenditure of time on Gen Ed isn't worth the trouble. Still others may want to harken back to the Redbook and reaffirm even more strongly a faith in the need for training students in the philosophy and history of Western Civilization...