Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses, the fact is startling that over 250 students living around the Houses, are deprived of organized athletic benefits. One reason for maltreatment is that years ago such students were permitted to use P.B.H. as a center and to compete on an equal athletic basis; but the crew turned out by P.B.H. proved so far superior to any House crew that after it had twice won the Agassiz Cup from Yale, its competitive right was withdrawn. Since then idleness on the issue has been backed by the argument that these outsiders have no desire to be included in the House...
...United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...
...preparation to opening its drive for $10,000 today, the Harvard Refugee Committee has announced the election of Robert F. Horrick, noted Boston lawyer and known as the "benefactor of the Harvard crew," as treasurer and Calhoun Stillman '39 as undergraduate treasurer...
Both men, members of the crew, had just finished a class under Bradford Washburn which deals with the surveying of mountains. In the absence of any Alps in Cambridge, they decided to penetrate into the attic of the Museum and survey the surrounding roof-tops...
Among the newer developments is one of America's few funiculars, the Cannon Mt. tramway in New Hampshire. It has carried passengers all summer, and opens soon for the winter season. The Cannon Mt. trail now runs to the summit, and a C.C.C. crew has been repairing storm damage on the Taft trail