Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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From subscriptions $1,085.50 are still due. If this is not paid within the next week, there will be serious difficulty in paying the expenses of the crew. About one hundred dollars is due on rests, which must be paid, or the boats will be moved out of the boat-house...
...Probably never before in the history of boating, at Wesleyan, have we had such an even crew, and a crew that had made so much visible progress in style of rowing in so short a time. . . . . We were never more hopeful for success at Saratoga than at present...
...spite of changes and the loss of their captain, the University crew is in a very favorable condition. Their endurance is wonderful, and a little more practice in small things, such as starting, will bring them into excellent form. The six to row at Springfield will probably consist of Bancroft, stroke; Bolan, 2; James, 3; Jacobs, 4; Thayer, 5; Morgan, bow. Immediately after the Springfield race these men will go to Saratoga and row in a six. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. have decided to try a paper boat in the Saratoga race, and an effort...
Yale is to row a slow stroke of 32 or 34 to a minute; Harvard, the old stroke of 36 to a minute. Whichever wins, we shall probably have a long newspaper discussion, attempting to prove that the stroke of the winning crew is the better stroke. One trial proves nothing. the successful stroke for a number of years will be a more convincing argument...
...plain white flannel of our University crew is safe, we hope, from the attacks of the authorities. Let us run no "risk...