Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boatings, Varsity: Rouner, stroke; Iselin, seven; Strong, six; Anderson, five; Felt, four; Reynolds, three; Asp, two; Scully, bow; Leavitt, cox...
...steady 32. Like a man at the wheel of a fast automobile, he had only to ask for power to get it. At stroke was Bill Curwen, watching the other crews carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight victory of the season...
...colors of the Weld Boat Club, of Eliot House, and of the Newell squad will emblazon the oars of seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...
...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...
...beyond all this is the indefinable quality o morale and esprit which Coach Bolles feels is the most important cause of all. It is an esprit which can only come from eight oarsmen, a cox, and a coach who are dogged enough to spend months in the cold wind or broiling sun learning to pull a 12-foot oar through the water with the precision and power to win races on perhaps five Saturday afternoons in a year and to pull just as hard despite the fact that 99 out of 100 people who watch them don't even know...