Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack. After each failure of McGowen and his crew, the neighborhood became more outraged. Complaints piled into department headquarters; the pressure increased. The dogcatchers tried every trick they knew. They loaded ground beef with dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together...
Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
Since veteran coach Bert Haines retired in 1952, the HAA has been able to attract competent graduate coaches for the lightweights when necessary. Volunteer Dick Lincoln '53 was quick to point out that under graduate coaching Harvard developed the champion lightweight crew that went to Henley last year...
...year may bring problems for the freshman crew, however. Of the three volunteer coaches--McKursie, Lincoln, and Brown--the latter two cannot coach in the spring...
...this time, the H.A.A. should have made a more effectual attempt to find a permanent coach. Although Joe Brown was an exception, very few graduate students are qualified as crew coaches, and willing to stay on the water until 7:30 p.m. each day for the salary of a part-time teaching fellow...