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...second University crew, coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, went over to England and won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. Mr. Herrick also coached the 1916 University eight which established the present down stream record of 20 minutes, 2 seconds. He was succeeded as coach by William Haines in 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921. Haines having been assistant coach in 1916. Harvard won the 1918 and 1920 races. The 1922 University, coached by R. Reber Howe '01, lost as did the crew of 1913, coached by Ralph Muller. E. A. Stevens came from the Pacific Coast...
...Harvard crews from 1908 to 1915, inclusive, were coached by James Wray, and won six of the eight races rowed, the 1908 race being the one in which the Yale stroke was taken into the launch at the three-mile mark and the crew finished with seven men in the shell...
William Gurdon Saltonstall, of Readville, was elected First Marshal. Saltonstall prepared at Milton and Exeter and during his college career has been captain of the Freshman hockey team, a regular on the squad this year, and first string end on the football team a year ago. As a crew-man he has been in the first Freshman boat, a year later in the Second University crew, and last spring he rowed against Yale in the first University shell. He was president of his class in its Sophomore year and now is president of the Philips Brooks House and the Student...
...leads this year as captain. Charles Cortez Abbott, the Poet, whose home is in Cambridge, prepared at Browne and Nichols and is president of the Advocate. The newly-elected Chorister, William Clarke Afwater, of Wellesley Hills, entered Harvard from Middlesex. In his Freshman year Atwater captained the 150-pound crew and this year is president of the Glee Club. John Caspar Dreier of Brooklyn, N. Y., prepared at the Polytechnic School there, and has been active in lacrosse and the Phillips Brooks House, of which he is social service secretary. He also holds a post in the Instrumental Clubs...
...beloved "Five Towns," rich beyond reason. Count Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that...