Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday, the freshmen worked out morning and afternoon to get used to the Lake Onondaga course. Today they row a qualifying heat at 10 a.m. and if successful they go again in the finals...
...oarsman's problem is to move his craft not only with power, but in such a way that all motion other than forward and in a straight line is eliminated. it is this process that takes months of training, as well as natural ability. Any number of things can go wrong during a stroke, because every pull involves the use of the entire body in a precise sequence that must not vary if that all-important smoothness is to be maintained...
However, shortly before the race, Coach Bolles will go over the course (with his coxswain if it is a strange river) and analyze weather conditions to determine whether the time that afternoon will be fast or slow. He then talks things over briefly with his stroke. There is not much to say, because the pattern for the race seldom varies from a pre-established form...
...minutes before the start is the agonizing time of butterflies in the stomach for oarsmen, a time when most of them regret the foolish impulse that over made them go out for crew in the first place. They think of their roommates lolling on the riverbank miles upstream, with a case of beer on one side and a girl on the other. They think of those newspaper reports about how hot the other crews are this year, and they wonder about those rumors or nine-minute time trials...
...part of the Judge. Samuel V. K. Willson '50, of Eliot House, is directing the music and is the only non-Winthrop male in the production. The show marks Winthrop's debut in musical comedy, and is expected to be the first in a series. Excess profits will go to the Displaced Persons drive...