Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...promotion of undergraduate rowing. The old club house stood on the site of the new one until the erection of the latter in 1907. The club was a great success from the first and filled a long felt want. This interest showed itself in the development of good crews and scullers, whose excellence is shown by the fact that in one regatta alone the club won seven events. The University crew drew many of its members from the Weld crews, taking five men from one eight and four men and the coxswain from another. Aside from graded crew and interclass...
...master discharges the coachman forthwith, without paying him some $462 back wages. He sends Nicodemus to M. Corneta, a debtor of his, however, with a letter recommending him to hire Nicodemus, to pay the coachman his $462 back wages, and to be sure and give him 462 blows for good measure. Corneta accordingly calls Andres and Carlos, and instructs them to present Nicodemus with the blows. They prepare to toss Nicodemus in a blanket and otherwise amuse him when Corneta relents and orders them to let the poor coachman...
...week's rowing ended yesterday with eleven crews on the river, four from the University squad and seven from the Freshman. The water was rough and choppy, and good feathering was well nigh impossible. For the first time this year the John Harvard was put in commisison, from the bow of which Conch Stevenson was able to watch the rowing of the Freshmen...
...order of the other crews might not be broken. Moral at stroke, having replaced Sargent on Monday, pulls an excellent oar, getting a longer reach and harder drive at the finish. Waid who was taken from the second crew and put in at five in the first, rows in good form, and gets a good deal of power into each stroke...
...freshman crew have been out in force during the week, thus giving Coach Stevenson a good chance to look the men over. Many of the crews are naturally awkward and unsteady; but the first two showed up well yesterday both in form and endurance. No cut has been made...