Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting was not very full, only fifty or sixty members being present. But Mr. William Thayer, of the class of '81, was present and when Captain Pfeiffer made a motion to have a resolution passed to the effect that a graduate advisory committee be appointed, he advocated it and seemed to think that the graduates would take an interest, and would work for the crew. Discussion then ensued as to the advisability of this committee and what powers it should have. Mr. Pfeiffer said his idea was that this committee of three men should be chosen and elected...
...years, and Mr. Thayer says that after talking with some twenty graduate oarsmen within the last few weeks he is convinced that they will gladly serve on the committee if there is one, and will do their best to give the crew the benefit of their experience and observance. Captain Pfeiffer said very truly that it is too much responsibility for the captain of the crew to do all this alone, since he is necessarily a young man, and has not rowed more than three years; in fact, has in most cases rowed only one year in the university crew...
...Yale academic freshman crew has been chosen and is made up as follows: Robbins, bow; Hoppin, 2; Alken, 3; Coates, 4; Isham, 5; Foster, 6; Brewster, (captain); Noyes, stroke; Plummer, coxswain...
Candidates for the freshman crew will meet in the gymnasium at 4 this afternoon. H. R. Bishop, Jr., Captain...
...what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden for one man, the 'Varsity captain, to carry, how long would this earnestness and co-operation last...