Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...candidates for the University crew are, in '77, Legate and LeMoyne; '78, Loring, LeMoyne, Harding, Littauer, Raymer, Kessler; '79, Jacobs, Brigham, Schwartz, Crocker, Smith, Preston, Conlen, and Brewster...
...Freshmen held a class-meeting yesterday afternoon, at which Mr. Shillito presented his resignation as captain of the crew. Mr. A. W. Hooper was then elected to that position. At the conclusion of the proceedings Mr. Bradley, the chairman, proposed the class cheer, which met with an enthusiastic response...
...Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., at its meeting this week, decided to make an important change in the Club Races this fall. The first crews will be the four-oars. That is, the four best men in each club will pull against each other, and then the six next best men will pull as second crews. We should say rather that the crews will be made up of the best men in the clubs who will consent to abandon easy-chairs and cigarettes for a few hours; for it is vain to hope that the best oars...
...Record states that the time-keeper for the race at Springfield stopped his watch when the winning crew passed the line, but failed, for some reason, to consult it immediately: "When it was consulted it was found to be running, and the announcement was simply the judgment of the time-keeper, and as such cannot be relied upon." It says further, that Mr. L. J. Powers, President of the Charter Oak Park at Springfield, took the time of each mile, and according to his watch Yale made the four miles in 21.01. This is undoubtedly more nearly right than...
...first half of this race was a good one. It lay throughout between numbers two and four. As the boats began to turn the bend at the middle of the course, Brown's crew was leading, with Page half a length behind. At this point Cheney forced Ogden, who had been keeping as close to the windward shore as possible, to swing out farther into the stream. The tide was running very strong, and number four was carried out of its course towards the opposite shore. The second boat felt the tide much less, and here took the lead...