Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Californian, Ed Yeomans, keeps up the Californian rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only man who can see where the crew is going, and guide it on its straight and narrow path...
Harvard: Stroke--A. H. Parker, Jr. '32; 7, F. J. Swayze '33; 6, J. W. Peirce '33; 5, Gridley Barrow '34; 4, C. F. Hovey '32; 3, Bradford Simmons '34; 2, Taggart Whipple '34; bow, A. L. Nickerson '33; cox, E. S. Litchfield...
...undoubtedly devote the three remaining days to perfecting the raising and lowering of the stroke on which so much of the smoothness, feel, and spirit of a crew depend. An eight may row faultlessly at an even stroke, yet if it cannot raise and lower the beat at the cox's command without losing the proportion and rythm, it will not be able to meet the sprints of its opponents. From now on it will be the minor details which the coaches will watch out for, and especially the little errors, which when added together, all tend to reduce...
...Democrats approved of such steamroller tactics. Alfred Emanuel Smith gave a luncheon for 14 of his principal supporters who vowed they would "back to the last ditch" Mr. Shouse's selection. James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, sided with Mr. Shouse. Declared he: "The issue is unimportant since no principle is involved. Contention over essentials exhibits virility of character, over nonessentials, stupidity. . . . The rejection of Mr. Shouse would be nothing short of studied humiliation of a man who has given his time and talents in furtherance of the most essential reorganization of any political party...
Died. William Cox Redfield, 74, President Wilson's Secretary of Commerce; of heart disease; in Brooklyn...