Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the picking of the first two boats on the University crew squad at the beginning of this week the Harvard oarsmen have started their serious drive for the later season races. Although these two crews are by no means permanent these eights will give Coach E. J. Brown '96 two crews on which to concentrate his attention in preparing for the first race of the season with...
...first boats covered the Henley distance in 6 minutes, 47 seconds, while the Kent winning crew made the fast time of 5 minutes, 16 seconds...
...years ago, oarswomen were required to weigh more than 120 pounds. But today, says Coach Eleanor Clifton, "the girls all seem to be growing thinner, and we cannot keep that regulation. Our only definite stipulation is that a girl have 'B' posture to qualify for crew, the rest depends on her natural ability." For three weeks before the class races, the oarswomen keep strict training: to bed at 10:30 p. m., a 15-minute nap each day, no eating between meals, no coffee, only one helping of wholesome food at meals...
...drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching the departure of his crew with courage, despair and fury...
...Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things escaped the attention of Author Powys. He writes about them with his customary precision and subtlety and imagination...