Word: captain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Very truly yours,WM. AMOS BANCROFT,Captain H. U. B. C.[We said, in the editorial to which Mr. Bancroft refers, that he should explain his views in case he disagreed with our correspondents. Enough is not known concerning the intentions of those who have charge of our rowing interests, and our remarks were made with the intention of furnishing an opportunity for a reply to the criticisms of the graduates who have written to us on the subject. We have every confidence, as we have often said, in the present captain of the crew, and if the exact state...
...portrait of Captain Cook has been presented to the University Boat Club...
...shall be able to publish hereafter in every issue a statement of the progress made by the candidates for the University crew. The candidates are being worked, to a large extent, according to the principles laid down in Woodgate's "Rowing Manual," and are under the guidance of the captain and Mr. Dana, the coach. The financial condition of the club is such that the strictest economy will be necessary next summer, and there is even danger that lack of money will become an obstacle to our success. For instance, unless a special effort is made, it will be impossible...
...candidates for the Freshman crew number over twenty, and the captain, Mr. Ware, will have no lack of material from which to select a first-rate crew. Before Christmas a challenge is to be sent to the Yale Freshman for a race to be rowed on the same day and at the same place as the University race, and in case this challenge is accepted, the candidates will leave the College gymnasium, where they are now at work from half after four until half after five each afternoon, for the boat-house gymnasium. The candidates run three nights...
...captain requests us to say that more candidates are wanted, and any one who has a desire to play ball next spring should present himself now at the gymnasium...