Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal to success, of coming up hard at the end of the stroke, the result being that the boat stops between strokes, instead of gliding along evenly and smoothly as it should. Captain Cook not will begin to coach the crew regularly until after June 10, but from that time until after the Harvard race he will be with them constantly. Early in May, Captain Rogers, '87, will take charge of the crew and look after them until the arrival of Captain Cook. Nothing...
Catain E. P. Smith, of the Columbia freshman crew, has recently sent a reply to the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race at New London. Captain Smith refuses to accept the challenge, but states his willingness to admit the Yale freshmen to the Harvard Columbia race, provided Harvard agree. As Harvard will in all probability refuse to agree to any such proposition, the Yale freshmen and the Columbia freshmen will not race this year...
...agreement of the freshman crew. If there had not been a similar attack in your editorial column. I think that after the events of the past winter, I should not be justified in noticing it. For the benefit of others, however, I will say that early in the year, Captain Kidder asked me to coach his crew, alleging that he was having some difficulty in getting men to help him. Finally, Mr. Carpenter and I assisted him in laying out a plan for the work of his crew. One feature of that plan is slow rowing in barges. Aside from...
...lost the race, and we look therefore to Ninety-two to redeem the low reputation which the freshman crews of the past have seemed to deserve. To achieve this, every effort should be put forth. Whatever step is taken, if it is done wisely and with consideration, the captain may be assured of the support both of his class and of the rest of the University...
...three five-minute pulls, instead of a single tug as usual. The teams were as follows: Columbia-1, C. H. Hart; 2, E. C. Robinson; 3, E. Harris, (capt.); G. M. Elliot, (anchor). Harvard-1, E. W. Grew; 2, F. O. Raymond, Jr.; 3, J. Endicott, (captain); G. Perry, (anchor). Columbia won 1 inch on the drop, but retained only half an inch at the end of the first minute. At two minutes Columbia had 1 inch again, and at three minutes 1 1-2 inches. Perry was caught soon after this trying to heave and lost about 3 inches...