Word: captain
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This opinion is no doubt a just one, and will be concurred in by most undergraduates; but on reviewing all the circumstances connected with the case, it is evident that the resignation of either coach or captain was unavoidable. By the method of training pursued at Harvard, a coach is not given absolute authority over the crew; he is a trainer and an adviser. The responsibility therefore rests as much upon the captain as if there were no coach...
Under these circumstances, when there is a difference of opinion between the coach and the captain, the latter naturally wishes the decisive word, as in case of mistake the blame will fall upon him, and though ready to abide by his own mistakes, he naturally does not care to be responsible for those of another. This has been the cause of separation between the crew and the late coach. The latter insisted upon a measure which the captain believed to be wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method...
...with a knife on a bullock (which we shipped at Rio), and next danced around him for several minutes with an axe, - the animal looking up at him from time to time more in pity at his inefficiency than in anger, - came aft and announced his trouble to the captain, who, with the three sporting gentlemen from New York just mentioned, went forward and proceeded to practise with their guns on the animal as at a mark. The animal, weary at length of the unequal contest, consented to submit...
...believe that such scenes are far from uncommon on the ships of this line, though there are exceptions, notable among which will always be found the ship so fortunate as to have Captain Rathburn for a commander; but this is the general tendency of the company...
...meeting of the Freshman Class, January 24, Mr. P. Grant was elected Captain of the Eleven; Mr. B. S. Blanchard, Secretary of the Eleven; Mr. J. A, Wright and Mr. H. S. Le Roy Captain and Secretary respectively of the Nine. A letter of resignation from the Captain of the crew read. The resignation was not accepted...