Word: captain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WELLES has resigned his position as Captain of the Freshman crew, and Alvah Crocker has been appointed to the position by the executive committee elected at the late meeting of the class. W. B. Van Rennselaer has been appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the class boat-club...
This was an offence that Mr. Hatch was obliged to wink at, but, picking himself up from the scuppers, whither his majesty had rolled, he departed in high dudgeon to the captain's room, and thence degraded the pugnacious officer, putting in his place a retired New York policeman, whose sailing qualifications had been chiefly acquired in frequent trips (in a private capacity) to Coney Island, and, for aught I know, to the sweet repose of Mr. Blackwell...
...Dartmouth has a very sensible editorial about the action of Yale and Harvard. It pronounces Harvard "manly" for "withdrawing at a time when she will receive countless flings on account of never having won a race." It is somewhat annoyed at Captain Cook's alleged statement that Yale has a rivalry with Harvard alone, and consoles itself with the reflection that, whatever the Captain may think, the "majority" consider Dartmouth, etc., very formidable rivals. It admits that "colleges with an abundance of men and an abundance of money must dislike having to give up cherished plans for the sake...
...reports of the Secretary of the class, the Captains of the foot-ball eleven and base ball nine, and the Secretary of the crew, were first read and accepted, after which remarks were made by the Captain of the crew, and Mr. Weld, '76, urging the great need of additional and liberal subscriptions to both the Freshman and University crews, and also proposing that a committee of five be appointed to manage the interests of the Freshman crew. Messrs. Welles, Mulligan, Van Rensselaer, Wright, and Crocker were appointed...
...following class officers were then reelected: President, E. B. Putnam; Secretary, E. Hale; Captain of the crew, J. W. Welles. Mr. A. Crocker was elected Secretary of the crew...