Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was nothing noticeable about these young gentlemen save that half wore the dark blue of Oxford, half the light blue of Cambridge, and that they had more hyphens and initials among them than ordinary folk. There was P. W. Murray-Threipland, for instance, an old Etonian in the bow of the Oxford shell, and M. F. A. Kean, an old Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough...
...recovery are eradicated, it is expected that he will return to the stroke seat. This will mean that there will be four strokes for three crews, and there is a likelihood of one of them being moved from the pace-setter's place to a position nearer the bow of the boat...
Most organizations at Harvard eventually become clubs of some sort or other. The gregarious instinct does not bow completely to indifference. And a collection of people interested in a critical appreciation of the theatre becomes a Theatre Goers' Club and loses itself in refreshments and parliamentary law. So the Debating Union is not singular in becoming extinct as a factor in University affairs while it strives to furnish the college litterateurs with a raison de parler...
...babies are troublesome creatures. But they are inevitable and their existance cannot be scorned. The tutorial system already has the college at its feet. The faculty also must bow to reality. Lectures must be made to fit the needs of a college under such a system--and they must be vital. For the college mind is a critical mind in a critical age. By giving birth to the tutorial system the University has made one more contribution to the needs of contemporary living the present duty of the University is to make its elder brothers, lecture and class, as useful...
...first group of oarsmen to usher in the 1926 season was composed of 18 freshmen on the Leviathan. Assistant Coaches A. L. Hobson '24 and C. S. Heard '25 were in the two bow seats, while at the coxswain's post was a moving picture camera. Moving picture men also crowded on the Newell float, filming all the crews that went out. The scene was completed by an aeroplane which hovered over the river for some time...