Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Charleston Harbor this week chugged the sleek 72-ft. auxiliary schooner Indra, bound down the Atlantic coast to the Caribbean. Each of the crew of six boys who manned the Indra had paid $1,500 for the privilege of rigging her sails, holystoning her decks, polishing her brass every morning until June. When they return they will be examined, not as Able Seamen but by the College Entrance Examination Board...
Eddie Bennett said he hoped every one would come out for crew in the fall as this was especially important with a new coach to get used to the changes in form. Last year's Varsity, Jayvee, and Freshman crews would be kept intact as much as possible, he added
...There are five prerequisities for good rowing," he said; "some water to row on, naturally, then some shells, material or man power, somebody to teach the fundamentals and to--get the crew swinging together, and lastly, spirit or morale." He expressed satisfaction with the Charles as a place to row on, and was especially pleased with the material, saying he had never seen so many shells together in one place before...
...Morale is a hard thing to define," he said. "You have all probably had the experience of being on some crew or team which beat a superior opponent simply by virtue of better spirit. We can only light the spark and hope to see it burst into flame...
...continued by saying that there would be a few changes in the style of rowing which he would to into later, and finished by quoting Kipling's poem, "If," which he said was particularly applicable to crew...