Word: henley
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Eight schoolboys from Kent, Conn. (TIME, Feb. 28), beginning their invasion of England, were pitted against eight veterans of the Thames Rowing Club, in the first heat of the Grand Challenge Cup Race of the Royal Henley Regatta on the Thames last week. It was a magnificent duel. Kent had the weight advantage and youth. The Thames Club had years of experience. Stroke for stroke, the two shells raced over three-quarters of the course. Then Kent nosed ahead. Jack Beresford quickly raised the stroke in the Thames Club boat. By a quarter of a length, the Thames Club...
...evidently not studied etymology or he would know that the word "atrocious" (Latin atrox, "fierce," "truculent") cannot be suitably applied in this connection. Again, he alludes, in a badly jumbled and incoherent sentence, to "the full clutch of circumstance." Apparently he is groping after a line from William Ernest Henley, whom, however, he has evidently not read. I recommend him to study Pope's famous line about a little knowledge. Once more, he uses the term "Yanks," and this in a letter of fault-finding as to style of writing I The exhibition of general ignorance and boorishness...
...such a trip would be harmful to schoolboy athletes-contrary to Kent's traditions of simplicity. But Father Sill quickly shaped his wish into a plan, and last week sailed with his crew squad for England, student third class on the Berengaria. The Kent crew will enter the Henley Regatta, will also row separate races with Eton and Radley, will visit Oxford and Cambridge...
Philadelphia, Pa., May 27, 1927-Two Harvard crews will go into races in the American Henley here tomorrow as distinct underdogs...
...final seating line-up of the third university crew, which with the 150-pound crew will leave for Philadelphia to take part in the Henley Regatta on the Schuylkill River Saturday, was picked by Coach E. J. Brown '96 yesterday afternoon. The line up is as follows: stroke, J. A. Hall '27; 7, D. S. Greer '29; 6, D. S. Kroell '29; 5, K. D. Robinson '29; 4, B. J. Harrison '29; 3, E. S. Hamlin '29; 2, J. W. Dunlop '28; bow, H. C. Pierce '27. Either R. W. Herr '28 or J. A. McCullough '29 will...