Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore crew are boarding together...
...present constituted, the Harvard University Boat-Club is a boat-club only in name, and consists of an association that hires the boat-house, and, by hook or by crook, scrapes together enough money to pay the expenses of the University crew or to arrange its debts. Instead of encouraging the real interest in boating, it rather discourages it by calling on the undergraduates for $2,000 or $3,000 every year without giving anybody a chance to row excepting the crew and those who go to the additional expense of buying a boat and paying rent on it. Membership...
...total weight of the eight men is 1,371 pounds; the average 171 pounds. The weights are natural. Besides the above men F. J. Le Moyne, '77, and L. N. Littauer, '78, are among the number of candidates from which the crew will probably be selected...
...rows are usually four or five miles long, on which the crew is followed by the coach in another boat, and stopped often for instruction. Every few days a longer journey is taken to give the men a chance to get together. On Saturday last the row was to Watertown and back. The speed was fair, and the men kept the boat unusually steady for this time of the season...
...Saturday, March 24, the Varsity made their first trip for the season in a shell. The crew are too heavy for the boat - last year's Fearon eight, - but it is steadier than the Blakey eight, and the crew have kept it, up to the time of writing, although there is some likelihood of a change in a few days...