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...races held yesterday afternoon between the three first class crews and the second Senior eight, the Senior crew was victorious, winning by a length and a quarter from the Sophomore boat, which came in second. The conditions were somewhat unfavorable, due to an upstream wind and a slight chop in the water. The Senior crew, which is composed partly of the members of last year's 1920 eight which defeated the winning Yale crew last spring by over 10 lengths, had the advantage of their experience...
...must remember," shouted the fiery evangelist, "that we can't create a desire if it isn't there. A red-headed kid with a stone bruise on each heel can ride a Kentucky thoroughbred to water, but a college professor with mutton-chop whiskers and 49 diplomas can't make him drink...
...volume of 'The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats' has on the title the autograph of Leigh Hunt. Into it Hunt pasted a bit of manuscript written by Keats, a letter in which Coleridge expresses a preference for sausages over a mutton chop, and one from Shelley which originally covered 'a check for (within a few shillings) the amount of your bill...
...account of Saturday's 40-mile an hour gale, the University crews, for the first time since regular outdoor practice started, were unable to be out. Ice was forming on the river, float, and launches, and the water was whipped into a chop. The work of the crews has been going on smoothly this year, and the men have had an unusually early opportunity for river work. The present order of the University oarsmen is as follows...
Practice during the forenoon was very much hindered by a strong northwest wind, which kicked up a shorp chop in the river. All the boats took short paddies, however. The row was delayed for some time when Harwood, at 4 in the University crew, broke his rigger while holding his oar deep to steady the boat in a launch's wake...