Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stevens of the University crew has engaged the Metropolitan Ice Company to commence cutting ice on the Charles River at 8.30 o'clock this morning, it was anounced last night. The Metropolitan Company will employ a gasoline driven ice-cutter in an attempt to break up the ice, and clear the river for the crews. The cutting will be done above the Newell Boat House which will afford the University rowers a fairly long course and will hasten the breaking up of the ice further down the river...
This step was taken to bring the work begun yesterday by several assistant crew managers to a more speedy conclusion. A large cut has already been made and for a foot out from the riverbank in front of Standish Hall. It is expected that the Leviathan will be on the water before the end of the week if the weather continues warm, and the work on the ice continues with reasonable rapidity...
...Nitze '28 is in the stroke seat of the second boat, and Barrett Scudder '27 has been put at stroke in the third crew. Scudder has been rowing on the 150 pound squad, and joined the University group yesterday. Another new face in the third boat is T. D. Howe '28, who has been wrestling and so unable to row until this week...
...first crew, on paper, appears to be a powerful combination, and a large number of veterans are rowing in the second and third crews. Saltonstall and Murchie, on the second, and Howe and Winthrop, on the third, all rowed in the Freshman boat last spring. Canning, Iselin, Weymer, and Gates all have rowed on University in other years...
...medicine, education, even business, then upon literature, although best not in the presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every man in the boat except number six and the stroke...