Word: coxswain
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...unfortunate that now is best forgotten. No one likes to see someone as successful and privileged as Washburn fall into an unspeakably ugly situation. This man had everything going for him. He was the scion of a prominent Boston family, a member of Harvard's Class of 1964, a coxswain of a gold medal-winning Olympic crew team, and a respected coach at a prestigious preparatory school as well as Harvard. What more could a man ask of his society? Washburn asked for and received dispensation from its most basic rules...
...Coxswains go out of their minds. It's a coxswain's course." Jones said. "Every boat needs the finesse to thread the course and pass other boats. Everone wants to be on the inside curve...
...coxswain (cox): the little person in the rear of the shell. He or she stears the shell, keeps the rowers informed of their progress in the race and controls the pace of the shell by calling for power strokes and the sprint...
shell: the proper name for a thin boat, which holds one, two, four and eight rowers and perhaps a coxswain...
...been pretty normal except for one wretched day last week. I couldn't believe how bad it was. We were going under the bridge and I was assaulted by an awful smell," said Eric LeVine '91, a heavyweight coxswain...