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After the long winter, successful crews add trophies to the collection accrued in the varsity lounge, where the awards won at Henley, England and Red Top at Yale are carefully preserved. Banners and cups adorn the room, and old crew members returning to the lounge may look through scrap books for stories of their younger, more heroic days. Each spring, visiting crews also redecorate the boat house; some of them specialize in painting a huge "Y" on the front piazza, others prefer "M.I.T...
Tabor's varsity crew which meets the freshman 150's at 3 p.m. has only two returning lettermen from last year's Henley crew--Jim Worthington, rowing at stroke, and Maurice Prindville at five. M.I.T. claims but two experienced oarsmen. Stan Lathrop will stroke and Bill Gerney will row out of the four sport...
...Over the Henley distance of a mile and fixe sixteenths, the varsity crossed the finish line in 6:00, a length ahead of Columbia, and the jayvees won by half a length in 5:58. The Harlem was at its best for the J.V. race, accounting for the time lag between the first and second boats...
...Piper had stayed in Paris, he might have been an abstractionist still. But he and his wife moved to a 17th century farmhouse in a valley near Henley-on-Thames. Gradually, the nature he saw around him drew him off on another track. His new style set out to blend geometric designs with the more amorphous shapes of reality-or, as he once expressed it, "a combination of a crystal and a potato, with neither predominating too much...
...view of the situation, Love told the lightweights, the attitude and ambition of the crew itself will be largely responsible for a successful season. Last year the 150-pound varsity lost only to Penn, who went on to win at Henley, while the J.V.'s wound up with a perfect record...