Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peary wrote of him: "Harrigan acquired this sobriquet on account of his ear for music. The crew used to be fond of singing that energetic Irish air which was popular for some years along Broadway and which concludes ungrammatically with the words 'Harrigan-that...
Londoners stroked their polls, musing. "It is all a matter of heredity," their countryman, one H. C. Brooke had announced. In collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...opinion it is not necessary to pick a final crew in any class, University or 150, until three weeks before the race, and if necessary, I shall make changes up to the last minute," declared Coach E. J. Brown '14, before 151 candidates at a meeting of the upperclassmen, yesterday afternoon in the Smith Halls Common room. The meeting officially inaugurated fall rowing, and was Coach Brown's first appearance as Head Coach. Other speakers were Captain Geoffrey Platt '27, W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Delmar Leighton...
Captain Platt first explained the advantage of giving every man an equal opportunity by having no first crew or squad this fall. He stated that the crews will not continue on the water after the weather becomes disagreeable, and that there will be no work thereafter until after the Midyears period...
...first official meeting of the crew coaches will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Newell boathouse. Coaches Brown and Haines, compose the entire crew coaching staff at present, but the announcement of the assistant coaches is expected daily from the Athletic Committee...