Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania Central Airlines, for having had "neither a passenger nor a crew fatality during its recorded period of operation, 1930-36, with an accumulation of 36,177,210 passenger-miles and 8,951,377 miles flown...
...door, the question inevitably comes up as to what the criteria for major sports really are. For if a game like basketball, which is played indoors before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports for the major...
...distinction it brings to the University, rather than by the effort or the spirit which the athletes who participate in it are willing to give. Football, of course, supplies the pennies for the H.A.A. strong box and keeps a large number of people aware of Harvard's existence. Crew has a social prominence which the University would hate to sacrifice, despite the fact that it produces only indirect monetary gains. And rare is the undergraduate who is so indifferent to Harvard athletics that he does not have at least an inkling in his mind of what the major teams...
holding down the number four position after spending most of last season on the Jayvee crew. Two other remaining veterans in the Orange and Black crew are Grant Armstrong and Brooke Stoddard. Cox Bill Hopkins, Tom McMillan, Bill Coors, Haaxhurst and Kinney complete the roster of a boat composed entirely of Seniors and Juniors...
Harvard, too, has no Freshmen who have been able to make the grade and get on the first eight. Way back las winter Bolles selected a Varsity crew composed entirely of experienced men, and he hasn't changed that crew once. It was quite a remarkable job of picking, and the result is that the boat that has been working together so long with none of those disturbing changes in personnel has developed into a powerful, smoothly functioning unit...