Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy that gives complete authority to the coach should be inaugurated in the University crew by a vote of the Athletic Committee at its next meeting...
...present crew situation has arisen from an incomplete conception of the respective duties of captain and coach. Mr. Herrick says, "The captain of the crew is elected by the crew as its leader," and he states the situation exactly as it should be. The captain should be a leader, but he is not qualified to select the make-up of his crew or to prescribe the amount of work necessary to bring his colleagues to the highest efficiency. These last functions belong to the coach...
...route to a class yesterday morning I asked an undergraduate, one who might be classified as typical and personally disinterested, what he thought of the recent articles apropos of the Crew situation. To my astonishment he vouchsafed the following illuminating opinion...
...Well, why worry about it at all? The Crew is bully good fun; they have a peach of a party at Red Top, and at nine o'clock the night of the race no one cares...
...Crew men complain that this question does not concern the undergraduate body. Perhaps it does not, but one would think that the men who work hard and faithfully for six months of the year, who go through a period of training much more rigid than any other sport, and who give the last ounce of their strength in the Yale race, would bitterly resent such a lack of appreciation on the part of the men they strive so hard worthily to represent. As has been said before, the average undergraduate has no faith in the present system, a system which...