Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system of class races was abandoned, because there was not class feeling enough to keep it up. Is it possible that the indifference about backing up one's own class crew can exceed the present unconcern about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will...
EVERY one knows how absurd this is, but it may serve, together with the letter upon boating which we publish this week, as a text for some remarks upon what the reporter calls our "enthusiasm." That we were not, last year, as enthusiastic over our crew as we should have been, is an admitted fact, and this gives a reason for the existence of such charges in regard to the training of the crew as are made in the letter referred to. No one can expect men to be very rigid in their self-discipline when it makes no apparent...
...crew who rowed in the Springfield and Saratoga races last summer there are but two now working. Of the last Freshman crew the captain alone has at this time definitely decided to row. Of the other candidates, two only ever rowed in a shell race, and this a Freshman race, two years ago. Moreover, the majority are under-sized men. The most superhuman captain, with such material to sustain him, could not make our chances brilliant...
...other colleges the interest in boating seems constantly increasing, and manifests itself in the most substantial form by offering an abundance of large, strong men as candidates for seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness...
...That a crew can win the first position only by successive years of working together, the Yale and Cornell crews have plainly shown. For a man to row one year and then, when just brought to some excellence as an oarsman and prepared to be of value, for him to desert, is a culpable betrayal of his crew and of his college. It may be argued that a man has a perfect right to row or not; and so he has; but not to stop rowing when he has once commenced. His personality is merged in the crew, - a university...