Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat shy Student Council met for the first time two nights ago around a conference table that was cleared of papers and ready for business. From last year's crew only three were still in office, the president, treasurer, and secretary. It was fortunate that at least these three have been lucky at the polls, for their experience will help the Council to carry on the more fruitful projects that the '47-'48 clan never found time to finish...
With four men gone from last spring's Varsity crew, Coaches Tom Bolles and Harvey Love are wasting no time in finding future replacements from the class of '52. The opening meeting for Freshman rowing and managerial candidates will be held this evening at 7 p.m. in Newell boathouse...
...Freshman athletic program this year calls for three credits weekly. Starting on Monday, October 4, all Freshman will be expected either to report regularly for football, soccer, or cross country, or else to satisfy their P. T. requirements through intra-mural sports, tennis, crew, swimming, or supervised calisthenics...
Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane...
...bogas are partly to blame for the river troubles. In 1937, they formed a union and loudly protested that their steamer captains did nothing "except eat chicken and pull the whistle cord." Within three years, they got shipowners to boost crew complements from 35 to 50, cut hours, raise wages, provide meals-and extras between meals...