Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Cook, Yale's crack boating coach of many years standing, has been tendered a complimentary dinner by a large number of the sons of that college in recognition of his great services in many a boat race at which Yale was first at the finish. It is well, but we submit that the other gentlemen, professors and tutors, who have also done their best by the institution ought not to be discriminated against. Can any good reason be assigned why - for instance - the worthy occupant of Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni...
...compare with this boating dinner. Expressed in a scholarly form, their conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge on learning that "Bob" Cook is to be given a dinner in fourteen courses will merely entertain the impression that when their turn comes they will be asked to a stand-up lunch or an early tea with ice cream and sponge cake passed around later in the evening. President Dwight, having had his dinner with...
...following is an extract from the letter written to Capt. Bob Cook, requesting his presence at the annual Yale alumni dinner in New York...
...believe that our victories have been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with...
...banquet will be tendered R. J. Cook, Yale's celebrated oarsman, by Yale's alumni at the Brunswick Hotel in New York, February...