Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate of last week appeared an article proposing a change from the present system of club crews to that of class crews, in which the writer suggests that we buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey, but devote our resources to the purchase of the shells left over each year by the University Crew, and thus return to class crews. That some change should be made is universally admitted, but the suggestion to buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey shows that the writer must have been ignorant of the agreement made with the latter last year. In this agreement...
...certainly seems strange that the Freshmen, after challenging Cornell, show so little interest in rowing as to have only some eight men in regular training, while their opponents have eighteen. There is material for a good crew in the class, and it is time that it should be fully brought out. It requires some self-denial to follow out a steady course of training through the winter months, but this is the true secret of success. Let '81 take a proper interest in the matter, and she will send an eight against Cornell which will do her honor...
...meeting of the contestants for the Freshman crew in Room S, upon Wednesday, twenty men presented themselves, and were divided into three crews of sixes, each division having a captain...
...hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem in the next issue; but really, if they are going to put six-and-two-thirds Freshmen into their six oared crew, something ought to be done about...
...LETTER from New Haven to a New York paper about the Yale crew says that some feeling exists at Yale about "the statement that Harvard is boasting that all that is wanted in the next race by Harvard is to see how much Yale's time can be beaten." Now we wish to assure our Yale friends that the statement referred to is false. Harvard never has made that silly boast, and does not intend to. She knows the uncertainty of the chances of boat-races too well to feel sure of anything except that she will try her best...