Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimism over this year's prospects and pessimism over the case of selecting the eight men to make up the Varsity and 150-lb. shells were expressed last night by Coaches Tom Bolles and Bert Haines at the final Varsity Club crew meeting of the year...
Bert Haines agreed with Bolles that the prospects were excellent and the material almost too plentiful. He stressed crew spirit as did Bud Talbot, who announced two post-season regattas and demanded that strict training be enforced--no smoking, no drinking, no late hours...
...snap" has been used rather too loosely by undergraduate authorities to designate any course which requires less energy output than the average. In a more precise terminology, there is a very small and exclusive category of "snaps," which can fulfill the wildest dreams of the party-monger and the crew man. These courses can usually be detected by a survey of enrollment statistics. Thus, when six hundred percent more students suddenly find their souls stirred by the esoteric beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years, six times...
Muddle No. 2: the complacency with which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
Muddle No. 5: While Pan American Airways, which operates the Bermuda run jointly with Imperial, carries four rocket-equipped life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their...