Word: coxswain
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Father Sill had had a brief, brilliant career. Born in Manhattan (March 10, 1874), he went to Columbia University where he was editor-in-chief of the Spectator, manager and coxswain of the 1895 Varsity crew which first brought honor to Columbia at Poughkeepsie. (In 1927 Columbia oarsmen voted him an honorary degree: Doctor of Rowing.) During college he was also a reporter (New York Sun). Later he was a theological student, a minister in Baltimore...
...preliminary meeting of the school for coxswains yesterday afternoon, fifteen men reported. The experienced men who reported were R. R. Stebbins '31, who coxed the University crew last year, and H. H. Bissel '32, coxswain of last year's Freshman crew...
Richard Gardiner Edwards, of Swampscott, was elected Chorister. Thomas Graydon Upton, of Cambridge, football letter man, was elected as Poet, and Eugene Louis Belisle, of Fall River, president of the CRIMSON and coxswain of the University crew during his Sophomore year, was elected Odist...
Stroke, Bacon: 7, Stickney: 6, Ballowell: 5, Rood: 4, Parker: 3, Nickerson: 2, Rice: bow, McKesson: coxswain, Becker...
This afternoon at 4.15 o'clock the first meeting of the school for inexperienced coxswains will be held in Visiting Crew's room of Weld Boathouse. The school will be conducted by F. S. Holmes '31, coxswain of the Jayvee crews...