Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...crew, he realized the unusual opportunities to make rowing a general and popular sport at Harvard. The interest that he aroused in club, class and scrub rowing has continued to grow, with one or two setbacks, until two years ago when the dormitory races brought out more men than even Mr. Lehmann could have hoped for. That this burst of enthusiasm for rowing was more than temporary has been amply proved by the number of crews which have practiced on the river this year. Men with no prospect of making even class crews and, what is better, the kind...
...from me, however, to insinuate even indirectly that the rights and privileges of the gentlemen who officiate there are not indeed supreme and absolute. But I should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
Both eights, coached by Wray from his single, rowed upstream for about 1 and 3-4 miles and back to the University boathouse in several easy stretches. Both boats went poorly, as was to be expected from so many changes. The University crew especially had difficulty in maintaining an even keel...
...fact that it is not more playing with metrical forms, but an obviously sincere endeavor to express something. Despite its patent technical shortcomings, it succeeds in a degree sufficient to justify itself. Precisely what thought underlies its compressed and complex sympathetic imagery one would, it is true, hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this case the sonnets of Rosetti...
...injured one of his thumbs, but after it had been bound, he was able to proceed. Returning downstream the second crew was overtaken and four racing starts were tried. In these the University crew finished ahead twice, the second once, and on the other start the two crews ended even. Before leaving the river the University crew took a turn upstream from the Boylston street bridge to the Infirmary and back...