Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the information supplied by the studio "advance men and a crew of assistants will arrive at the college about a months before the actual shooting dates. Any man enrolled at the college is eligible to submit himself to the examiner. Make-up experts will prepare him so that he is given every advantage. Attempts will be made to register each point of his facial feature and personality, also his pose and ability to respond to suggested acting...
...Crew A--Stroke, Norton; 7, Ladd; 6, Earnham; 5, Olmstead; 4, Lanier; 3, Saltonstail; 2, Sutherland; bow, Greer; cox, Pforzheimer...
Under ideal conditions the four crews of the A squad staged their first real race of the season over the one and three quarters mile course in the basin late yesterday afternoon. Stroked by J. H. Hall '27, crew C came out in front by a margin of two lengths over crew B, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. Crews D and A finished in third and fourth places...
Before the crews had reached Harvard Bridge, however, the rhythm and power in Hall's boat had given his eight a decisive margin. A gained gradually on crew C but at the finish was still trailing by a quarter length. Crews A, C, and D rowed a stroke between 30 and 33 while Norton's crew finished in second place in spite of the fact that he kept the beat between 26 and 30. The winning eight was seated as follows...
...enables him to look on sport as sport and not as a grind. The Oxford or Cambridge 'hearty' talks rowing, thinks it and, in fact, lives for nothing else. At this point I might refer to what we would consider a most inefficient method of selecting and developing a crew. In the early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen in his club, the coaches nominate other men whom they consider promising and from this group three so-called trial eights are formed. From this time until...