Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete in the college class?against the Harvard 150-pounders, the Yale and Princeton freshmen. In 1927 and 1930 they rowed in the British Hen- ley, first U. S. boarding school crews to do so (TIME, July 14). Two of the shells were given Kent by Lord Rothermere...
...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...