Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capture of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake by the British frigate Shannon, off Boston Harbor. The American hero in that encounter was Captain James ("Don't give up the ship!") Lawrence. The villain, according to a later Navy court-martial, was 3rd Lieut. William S. Cox. Last week the House Committee had a resolution before it that would reverse the verdict against Cox...
...thick of battle, as the British prepared to board the Chesapeake, the third lieutenant helped carry the dying captain below. Technically, as next in command (the senior non-wounded officer), Cox should have remained on deck. For this dereliction of duty he was subsequently discharged from the service in disgrace...
Soon afterward, naval historians began to doubt Cox's guilt, wondered if he had been made a scapegoat for a sorry U.S. defeat. Arguments in the third lieutenant's favor: the Chesapeake was fresh from refitting, manned by a green crew. Just before she sailed out to meet the Shannon, many of her men were drunk. The court-martial testimony showed that Cox, who was 23, fought his guns bravely until the crews deserted; then, cutlass in hand, he rushed up on deck to repel the boarders. Cox probably did not realize he was in command when...
Americans are not strangers on Oxford crews. Even last year, the Oxford cox was a Yale graduate. In the first Cambridge race, the Oxford boat swamped...
...started on another round of tuition boosts. Yale was upping its yearly charges to $1,600, an increase of nearly $200. Vassar was going even higher -from $1,600 to $2,000. ¶Success story of the week-from Atlanta's Emory University. In 1936, President Harvey W. Cox brashly announced that he would double his $10 million in assets in ten years. He did it in eight. In 1944, his successor, Goodrich C. White, announced that he would double them again. He did it in seven years. Last week Emory got a new windfall. The Rockefeller-supported General...