Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams House serves a fine scotch broth and a passable clam chowder. It was over a bowl of the latter that the young Radcliffe woman, fresh off the boat from the 'Cliffe (a small girls' college in Cambridge) met the young Harvard man, up for a day from the Yard (an esoteric prison camp, not to be confused with the expression "thirty feet long and a Yard wide," in which yard refers to a small green mammal). 'Hello," he said, "do you live here...
...been an unusually tough year for Harvard's crew, which lost both the Adams Cup and EARC Sprints races, but coach Harry Parker has made three changes which he thinks make his boat stronger than it's been all spring. He moved Will Scoggins, Gene LaBarre, and John Baker up from the second boat to replace Paul Ramsey, Art Cooper, and Roger Brooks...
Senior John Baker and sophomore Gene LaBarre are the other two taking seats in the first boat. This is their first time in the varsity shell, while Scoggins rowed in it twice earlier in the season...
...week ago, Parker had said. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are as many as three changes in the varsity boat." Yesterday, when he announced that he had made those three switches, he indicated that the boat was at its best. "I wish we'd been as strong in the Easterns as we are now," he said. Harvard finished third in the Easterns behind Navy and Rutgers...
...minor controversies that did exist were like that which surrounded the appearance of Hitchcock's Life boat in the spring of '44-unfortunately, many felt, Walter Slezak in the role of a Nazi gunboat captain had been spotlighted too sympathetically...