Word: henley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University. This first meeting proved so successful that it will probably be an annual affair. All the different colleges represented were able to adjust their schedules to the mutual satisfaction of each other. The date of the Childs Cup race was set for April 28, and of the American Henley for May 26. The schedule for the 150-pound class was also decided upon. At the suggestion of Dr. Howe the stewards of the American Rowing Association offered a cup for an intercollegiate single sculls race at the American Henley, and Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania delegates have intimated that...
...perfect command of his art. With a voice smooth though not weak, powerful though never forced, he gave a program which evinced catholicity of taste and true musicianship. Commencing with eighteenth century music of Gluck and Handel, he sang three songs of Griffes, Huhn's "Invictus". (the words are Henley's) and various French and Spanish songs. For encores he gave "Ships"--Masefield set to music highly descriptive--, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and more songs of his native land...
...Edward Marjoribanks of the Oxford team was educated at Eton, where he became Captain of the School, was Double First at Oxford in Classics, rowed in a Christ Church boat for four years and also rowed at Henley. He has been Secretary of the Canning Club (the butt of Mr. Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson") and President of the Carlton Club, both of which are conservative political clubs. At Oxford he has been Secretary-Librarian and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He is a nephew of the Marchioness of Aberdeen who came to America...
Rowing a stroke that was at every stage substantially above that of their opponents, the Yale Freshman 150-pound crew swept to victory over the yearling light-weight combination over the Henley distance on the Basin yesterday morning...
Outdistancing one of the most formidable entry lists in intercollegiate rowing, the University third crew, including the third combination of the Navy, Princeton, and Pennsylvania, won its race at Philadelphia over the Henley distance. It was a battle all the way between the Crimson crew, stroked by Spencer, and the Navy eight, the former gaining the decision by a full boat length. Princeton and Penn finished in the order named