Word: heber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English stroke is nearing the end of its course in American rowing. For a good many years nearly every college in the country has run its navy on the American plan. Yet Yale and Harvard stuck to Guy Nickalls, Heber Howe, their various associates, and the styles of the English Thames. Last year Yale went a thousand miles in the opposite direction and summoned Ed Leader, coach from the State of Washington. Leader promptly threw overboard British theories, stroke, rigging. He developed an eight which defeated Pennsylvania, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard. Rowing veterans declared his varsity crew, which Harvard trailed...
Richard Trimble Jr. of New York City was elected captain of the 1926 crew last night at the dinner given by Dr. R. Heber Howe Jr. '01 and Coach Bert Haines at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...music from the Freshman. Irresistibles will feature this evening's Freshman crew mass meeting in Smith Common Room at 7.15 o'clock. The 1926 crew will make its final appearance before leaving on the 10.45 o'clock train for the race with Princeton and Annapolis on Saturday. Dr. R. Heber Howe '01, Director of Rowing will preside over the meeting, introducing A. H. Ladd Jr. '23, captain of the University crew, Coach Bert Haines, and Richard Trimble Jr., captain of the Freshman crew...
...track meet 7 events to 4. W. P. Mellen, of New York-age 20, weight 155-stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard. He was the smallest man in either boat and was rowing his first intervarsity race. Stroking with judgment and rhythm, he held his crew to a safe lead after the first quarter mile and helped win the first victory for Oxford...
...position of General Supervisor of Rowing at the University will become vacant next fall owing to the announcement that Dr. R. Heber Howe Jr. '01 is to take up his duties in the autumn as headmaster of the Belmont Hill School--a country day school for boys in Belmont, Mass...