Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were unanimous. The treasurer's report for last year was not read, but the ex-assistant treasurer stated that the debt of the club had been increased about $1,200 during the past year, and that it would require $4,000 to pay off the debt and support the crew for '76-'79. Last year was necessarily a very expensive one. To the large amount of money (about $2,000) paid for new boats was added the expense of keeping the crew for weeks at a training-table while still in Cambridge. The receipts from college subscriptions were about...
...Captain of the crew is not yet chosen, but Collins of the Philadelphia Four will probably be elected to the position...
...during the boating season last year the racing boats of the clubs were filled with men few of whom were fit to row in a race, and the boats intended for those who row for exercise only were, except in a few instances, not used at all. The University Crew, when placed beside a first-rate crew, made no show whatever, and when placed beside ordinary crews, lost its chance of winning simply because money enough was not raised to buy a boat in season to prepare for the race. All this must be attributed to the lack of interest...
...deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time to invigorating exercise. As to our training it is merely farcical; there were men on the University Crew last year who scarcely made any professional training, and who indulged in dissipation with the utmost sang froid...
Yale seems to have great confidence in her crew as regards the result of the race at Springfield. Observe this item and tremble...