Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, Paris Bound, a suave gentleman boasts that he once stroked the Vassar crew. He was wrong in more ways than one. Vassar, famed female college though it is, has no crew. In fact, the only U. S. female college where crew is a major sport is Wellesley, at Wellesley, Mass. Last week Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and shouts...
Wellesley's crew activity is as old as the college itself (1875). In the early days no great speed was attained, for the oars-women wore long, swishing skirts, full sleeves, sailor collars, sailor hats cocked at perilous angles, and used large, heavy rowboats. Nonetheless, they had fun, singing on the lake. About 1900 a uniform crew costume of bloomers and white sweaters was adopted; racing shells were purchased. Crew became the prime sport...
...night at Wellesley is Float Night, late in May, when the four class crews race across the lake, while the girls on the banks sing. After that, the varsity crew is chosen -the greatest athletic honor at Wellesley...
...eight Sophomores who will have none of this. They will steady themselves on the deck of the battleship Utah as she bucks the tides of the island-dotted lower harbor of Boston. The Utah is bound for the trial courses off the Maine coast; as members of her crew these eight students will be not merely witnesses, but participants in naval manoeuvre...
...most agreeable features of the advent of Naval Science to Harvard has been the spirit of practicability which has permeated even the first year of the course. The presence this week of students in Harvard College in the crew of a United States battleship is not an innovation; there were similar trips last spring for the Freshmen registered in Naval Science 1. Eagle Boats took parties on a week end course of instruction, and late in June fifteen students cruised south to Annapolis. The satisfactory completion of a novitiate that included long vigils on watch and five hour stretches...