Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar bill is waste paper. Take away meaning and a word is only noise. Changing chairman to chairperson is mock doctrine and flaccid democracy, altering neither the audience nor, in fact, the office holder. Despite its suffix, chairman is no more sexist than the French designation of "boat" as masculine, or the English custom of referring to a ship with feminine pronouns. Chairman is a role, not a pejorative. Congressman is an office, not a chauvinist plot. Mankind is a term for all humanity, not some 49% of it. The feminist attack on social crimes may be as legitimate...
Last season, in the first race the Radcliffe crew defeated all the other college boats, but came in second behind the Vesper Boat Club. Charlotte is optimistic about the team's chances in this year's competition. The only major race scheduled in the fall is the Head of the Charles, a 3 1/2-mile long event with almost 20 rowing classes which featured 350 boats last year and has over 1000 entries this year...
...major difficulties for women's crew, as Charlotte sees it, is funding. At present, 40 women row, enough for a varsity boat, two practice boats, and a freshman boat. However, the women's crew department only owns one shell. Charlotte hopes for better relations with the men's crew so that the women can use more of the equipment...
Charlotte says that much of the confusion over the status of women's crew stemmed from its founding. Weld Boat House opened up to women in the fall of 1970. At first, only single sculling was available for women. However, interest grew to such an extent that a Radcliffe eight-place boat was entered in the annual house crew race. The following year, this former house team began racing intercollegiately and won a medal in the nationals...
Strong winds and weak MIT boats were major factors in the Crimson's misfortune. The crew was forced to sail hiking the boat, learning out of the boat against the wind. But the Tech boats don't have hiking straps and Ann Hoffner lost her footing on the side of the boat when the wind shifted during the race...