Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE are sixteen men training for the Freshman crew...
...FOUR-OARED crew from the Holyoke club was seen on the river Wednesday...
THOSE who wish to see "the best Freshman crew Harvard ever had" have only to visit the boat-house any afternoon...
...first place, there was but a trifle over half the members of the class present. It is safe to assume that none of the absent members were very desirous of rowing Cornell, but were indifferent about the matter; and when a man is indifferent about having a crew, he is also very loath to support it with the necessary funds. There were also a few men who did not vote at all, and who, almost without exception, opposed the sending of a crew. Now, the inevitable conclusion one arrives at is, that there is no use in trying to conceal...
...this week it seemed as if nothing could move the apathy of the Freshman class. The fact that a challenge had been sent to Cornell, that said challenge had been accepted, and that a vote had been passed in a class-meeting to support their captain and their crew, seemed to make no impression on their minds. They spared themselves, it is true, the disgrace of withdrawing from a regatta after their challenge had been accepted; but they exposed themselves to a similar disgrace by not making any preparations. We are happy to state that a decided change has taken...