Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caboose is where the freight train crew travels. Its cupola was created for two brakemen, one on each side, not to watch for hoboes, but to see that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions...
...short, "There's No Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
...lose, no race will be too hard for Harvey Love's Freshman crew. Apparently competition with the Yearlings will not suffice to test the mottle of the '40 boat. In the first year of the new coaching regime, it will untie the knets of nautical tradition to scale the plane of Varsity competition. However, graduated steps will lead up to this height: a race with Columbia and M.I.T. on May 8, and a four-cornered contest on May 15 with Cornell, M.I.T., and Syracuse...
...matter of weight is not so important and Harvard's material this year gives promise of a Varsity crew that should be able to average between 175 and 180 pounds, and that's all Bolles wants. He feels that a crew coach needs a boat that will tip the scales in the high seventies, and more than that is by no means necessary. "The important thing is how you use your weight. I've seen some very great oarsmen who were under...
Another of the eights that Bolles is working on includes Henry Locke at stroke, with Bill Dearborn, Reg Kernan, Bob Watson, Tom Talbot, McVeigh, Buzz Hovey and Radway behind him. There are six other boatloads of Varsity material, including last year's undefeated Yardling crew which Bolles has not as yet broken up. Captain Bill Rowe stroked this eight, with Jim Tyson at 7, Bill Huenekens at 6, Dud Talbot at 5, Larry Johnson at 4, Dave Scull at 3, Dick Ninde at 2, and Bunny Burnes...