Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Goodwin has been re-elected captain of the University crew...
...hope that all persons who have the least interest in our boating will join the clubs; it is a great mistake that many make in thinking that because they may be too light or weak to row for the crews, this should hinder them from joining their club. It is hoped to make the house and boats attractive enough to induce men who are not able or disposed to train for the races to join for the sake of the pleasure derived from sculling around the river watching the crews, and using the six and four oars when the crews...
Many of the older graduates feel, perhaps, that they have spent enough on boating, for previous to 1866 the crews were obliged to pay their own expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...CROWNINSHIELD.[The writer of the above seems to be laboring under a misapprehension. The crew are now using the English system in so far as their knowledge of that system and the climate of this country will allow...
Much was hoped for from the club crews in the way of bringing to notice and training a supply of oarsmen from which to select candidates for the University, and on this subject much has been written; but, strangely enough, the most vital point has been entirely neglected, viz. the proper coaching of the men in the club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University...