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Tying for third was a crew stroked by Varsity captain Bus Curwen which lost its early lead in the last 100 yards when one of the oarsmen caught a crab in the choppy sea. Finishing in a dead heat with a crew stroked by only man. Curwen followed Wood by only a dock-length...
...before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade...
...sculler was on a parallel course with the Boonie and was racing along in a competitive spirit when he caught a crab, and his craft was turned broad-side to the onrushing Boonie. Blinded by the late afternoon sun, the captain of the larger vessel failed to notice the frail ship directly in his course, and they met with a rending of sculls...
...Sundays he can always be found sitting contentedly on his front lawn, colorfully attired in a pair of bright blue slacks, digging crab grass from his garden with his two lively youngsters. So it is from personal experience that he is able to draw his frequent analogies from child behaviour. But in spite of a busy life of teaching and acquiring knowledge, he envies men of action. "The life of a philosopher," he says, "is the life of the mind...
Navy never had a chance to show Harvard its highly publicized wares. At the Mass. Avenue Bridge, which the crews reached practically simultaneously, Phil Childs, the Blue and Gold stroke, caught a half-crab and consequently jumped his slide...