Word: crew
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Pulse-beats have been increasing indirect ratio to the boosts in stroke-beats on the Charles lately as the Varsity crew's first regatta looms larger and larger on the weekend horizon. Anticipation is on a unique level because Saturday's race with Princeton and M.I.T. is the crew's only appearance before the home crowd this spring...
Saturday's three-crew race will be rowed upstream on the Charles from the subway bridge to the M.I.T. boathouse, a mile and three-quarters course...
...which even an amateur could engrave on the head of a pin. This year, for example, their competitive season will be limited to three races unless they can make a deal with Tabor Academy, a victory over whom can't possibly add much to the prestige of any college crew...
...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
...ultimate aim of all their strivings is to take home the Goldthwaite Cup emblem of Big Three 150-pound crew championship. They will row for it at Derby, Conn. The course will be the regulation Henley distance, a mile and five sixteenths, precisely the length of the longest straight stretch on the English Thames where the original Henley is held...