Word: cayuga
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...tedious spring to work a crew into shape for the long and tedious sweep-swinging season. So the Big Red got off to a slow start. On the Severn in April, they lost to Navy; on the Potomac in May, and even on the home waters of Lake Cayuga four weeks later, Cornell's varsity eight came home second, behind the powerful Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania...
...miles of home water on New York's Cayuga Lake. Cornell's crew was able to match the Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania almost stroke for stroke; then Penn raised the beat to a man-killing 33 a minute. The Big Red faltered, and Penn's varsity eight slid home by more than a length, for its eighth victory...
...main campus at Ithaca, perched "several hundred feet above the southern extremity of Cayuga Lake," as one official publication anatomically describes it, has long had the reputation of being one of the most scenic in the United States. On esthetic grounds alone, Cornell students show pardonable pride when they sing of their "noble alma mater, Glorious to view...
...Canadian navy's interest in the surgeon of the Cayuga seemed to stop right there. It shielded him from reporters who had a host of questions. It did divulge that his real name was. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 29, of Lawrence, Mass.* That was all. Why had he posed as a doctor? "I'm as curious as everyone else is," said Commodore Kenneth Adams, "but it didn't come within the scope of the inquiry to ask him why. And so far as the navy is concerned, he is a doctor. No man without medical knowledge could...
...served in R.C.N. hospitals in Nova Scotia for three months last spring, and became a registered practitioner in Nova Scotia. From there, he went to the Cayuga, war, and fleeting glory...