Word: crew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication signed "Junior" published in your columns this morning contains a suggestion which we believe is so unwarranted as to deserve a prompt refutation. It refers to the management of the class crews. Whatever be the financial condition of the crews, the mere hint at dishonest dealings on the part of the Class Managers is too serious a matter to go unanswered. If the writer has in mind any specific instance it is clearly his duty to bring it to the attention of the officers of the class interested; if he has not, he has needlessly insulted the Class Managers...
...correspondence on the subject of class crew management which has appeared in today's and yesterday's communication column is anything but a wise form of handling college affairs. The object with which the first letter was written was undoubtedly to bring forward what seemed to the writer a practical suggestion which ought to be considered. Wholly without intending it, he so phrased the letter, that several crew managers, including at least one graduate, felt that the communication implied dishonesty on their part. Of course such a motion is somewhat absurd, and those concerned probably realize it by this time...
...financial management of the class crews is at present in a very unstable condition. As a new shell is needed a class is asked to subscribe money to defray the additional expense. When the class graduates the shell is either given or sold to a succeeding class crew. If it is sold who gets the money? If the crew management gets it what becomes of it? It would seem that it is simply so much money in the manager's pocket...
...suggestion is this: Let the 'Varsity management buy shells and let them to the class crews for the season. This, I think, would save money both for the 'Varsity management and for the class crews. A shell generally lasts about four years, so that the scheme is perfectly practicable and would save the subscribers to one class crew from paying for a shell to be used by a later...
Coach Robert Cook divided the Yale 'varsity crew candidates Saturday into three squads. The first rowed as follows: Stroke, Williams; 7, Niedecken; 6, Allen; 5, McGee; 4, Flint; 3, Brock; 2, Capt. Whitney; bow, Rogers. Hewitt stroked the second crew and Parkhurst the third...