Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always rather hard for a class to support a Freshman crew which must be sent away in June and provided with new boats, oars, etc., and can, of course, do nothing to help pay its expenses. It will be harder than usual to do it this year because of the sportsmanlike choice of Poughkeepsie as the place for the race, regardless of financial inducements, and because twelve men are being kept at the training table instead of the usual ten. Undoubtedly, however, the generous and thoroughly representative support of a crew, financially as well as in other ways, helps...
...only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...
...only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...
...cooking, lighting and heating we used walrus blubber and large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping-bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...
...only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...