Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fair Harvard's varsity lightweight crew won the final at the Eastern Sprints Saturday without ever having qualified in a heat. We do not contest the quality of that crew; we do, however, contest the decision of the referee placing the boat in the finals in the first place...
...trial heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent as far as they were for Harvard if the boat in question was from Columbia or Brown? Or would those pious friends of Harvard rowing keep their mouths shut...
Parker won his heat of the semi-finals on Saturday to reach the ten-boat finals, but was outdistanced in Sunday's race...
...tough coach. This year, despite some bad breaks, he engineered an undefeated season. At the beginning of the year Monk Terry, the outstanding lightweight stroke, decided to move up to heavies. His loss was a real blow, but Andersen juggled his men and came up with a championship boat. He adopted the new Stampfli boat this year and his oarsmen had to get used to that...
...like Waiting for Godot, which brings in God and religion and which sounds right for Dylan. And maybe H can be a religion. What this song's got in common with the other two is the message in the following lines: "Everybody's building ships and boat; some are building monuments; some are jotting down notes. Everybody's in despair. Every girl and boy. But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy." People are despairing because what they're doing--building monuments or jotting down notes to songs like Dylan--is as useless...