Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VARSITY CREW...
...Crew Coach Tom Bolles has called a meeting for all candidates for the Varsity and 150-pound crews tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Varsity Club...
...dark note in an otherwise successful year was the loss of six out of nine championship contests to Yale colleges, leaving the Edward S. Harkness Trophy in the possession of the Elis. Only in Crew, Squash, and Touch Football did the Crimson triumph...
...table accompanying the report reveals that in seven years, participation in House athletics has climbed steadily from 835 to 1170 contestants. Most popular sport last year was Squash, with 416 players: fall tennis trailed with 243, closely followed by football with 226 and crew with 203. Fencing drew only 18 contestants...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...