Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...portrait of Captain Cook has been presented to the University Boat Club...
EVENING READINGS. - Professor Norton will resume his Readings of Dante, on Tuesdays. Mr. Cook will read Goethe's "Faust" and Reinecke Fuch's, beginning Thursday, January 11. The Readings are held in Harvard Hall, from...
...such. Now, if a man wants to acquire a profession, does he not go to the headquarters of that profession, be they at home or abroad? Certainly he does. Where are the headquarters of rowing? Decidedly in England. (Even if in America, the principle would hold good.) Was not Cook, the captain of the Yale crew, shrewd enough to see that, by visiting the Mother Country and studying her oarsmanship, he could eventually whip any American college? The rowing of Yale was much admired by English critics at the Centennial Regatta. The Field says...
WHATEVER may be the respective merits of the Oxford and Harvard strokes, and whatever advantages Captain Cook's "adaptation of the English stroke" may possess, there is another question outside of these matters, - the question as to how an active interest in boating can be revived. The results of the races last May were not flattering to the much-extolled club system; the boats were filled with hastily collected, imperfectly trained oarsmen, that varied as much in ability and knowledge of rowing as a crew possibly could. The boating-men who were not in training for the "Varsity...
...boating seems constantly increasing, and manifests itself in the most substantial form by offering an abundance of large, strong men as candidates for seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness. With us, a place...