Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy matches strokes with Columbia on the Harlem River. When Harvard opens its schedule next Saturday with M. I. T. the Engineers will have rowed two races, one of which ended in a sweeping victory over the Navy on the Severn last week. On May 18 the Crimson eight will face the crew from Annapolis on the Severn, having met Cornell on the Charles in the interim...
...crew is the best ever produced by the Engineers. These sweep-swingers, in their three length win over the Naval Academy, gained their first victory in nine years of rowing competition with the crews from Annapolis. No changes have been made in the seating of the Cardinal and Gray eight and the predommance of Sophomores and Juniors with the exclusion of former first string oarsmen predicts that Tech's opponents will find the going rough...
After the defeat at the hands of M. I. T. last Saturday a new first string eight was made up, in which most of the positions are filled by last year's plebe oarsmen. The old first crew has become the Jayvee and the new Naval crew is an unknown factor. Last year's Navy eight was one of the poorest in many years and was outrated, in the opinion of many rowing experts, by the first year boat. It is no surprise to speculators in Naval rowing stock that the third classmen should supersede some of the upperclassmen...
...weeks from tomorrow Harvard will have its second race of the season when it races over the Charles River Basin course with Cornell, which promises to be better than the eight turned out from Ithaca in recent years. The resemblance of the old Courtney swing is evident in the 1929 eight which has easily triumphed over the Jayvee outfit in all of this season's rows. Reports from Ithaca warn that Cornell is a crew to be watched...
Twelve Radcliffe graduates have sent sons into the Class of 1932; eight freshmen have mothers who are Smith graduates; the mothers of seven attended Bryn Mawr, and Vassar graduates tie with those of Wellesley for the honor of enrolling six students in the ranks...