Word: boated
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...fumbled my way out of the training-barrel and insisted that I was ready to try rowing in a boat that moves. I carried the oars down the dock and my instructor and I carried the wherry, or beginner sculling shell that is less-difficult to tip over, down together. He showed me how to get in and then sculled around in a circle, showing me how to turn and land on the dock. At this point, I just wanted to get it over with. I wanted to Make the Most learning to scull for free with a Harvard...
...this, however, I had to get in the boat. This was a problem. The maneuver I had been shown was simple enough—one foot here, hand there, settle down on the seat and glide away. But I could not contort like that. It might have worked better if I hadn’t assumed that it would be easy. But when I finally got one foot in the hull and another clinging in a panic to the dock still, I decided to improvise...
...stepped into the boat where it made the most sense to me and not, say, where the instructor had told me to stand. When the wood crunched underneath me I knew I might start to cry. Embarrassing things rarely happen in isolation. I made hurried apologies and slinked away soon as I could. The instructor said I should come back when the director of the program was there—maybe he could show me a better way. But that will not happen. A more shameless magazine writer would plumb this experience to its metaphoric depths, but I prefer...
...started the evening by asking if freshman year was the best (and perhaps only) way to benefit from diversity at Harvard, as Light seems to suggest. Had we missed the boat after our first year? The answer seems to be a disappointing yeah, sort of. It’s hard to recreate the ease of getting to know someone only because the Freshman Dean’s Office thinks you should—not for any other more self-conscious reason...
...race saw the Black and White second boat (8:40.46) barely edge the Radcliffe first lightweight four (8:41.26) and trounce...