Word: lehmann
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After the race there will be an intermission of a week. After that two trial eights will be picked from the whole number of candidates. These crews will be coached by Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis and will row a race on or about December...
...Lehmann may give a challenge cup for this race if it is to become an annual fixture...
About seven hundred men assembled in the square yesterday afternoon to welcome Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis on their arrival in Cambridge. When the carriage containing Mr. Lehmann, Mr. Willis and Captain Goodrich drove into the square, hearty cheers were given first for Mr. Lehmann, then for the others, for the crew, and a final three times three for Harvard. The carriage then drove to the boat house and Mr. Lehmann spent the rest of the afternoon coaching the fours. He took one crew at a time and gave them each the benefit of a half-hour's coaching...
This afternoon at 2.45 Mr. Lehmann will reach Harvard square, and he will later go down to the river for his first work in preparing a crew for the race next spring. Mr. Lehmann's arrival then means much to the University. It means that last year's tremendous increase of interest in rowing will not be permitted to die down under the discouragement of defeat. It means further that there will be no sweeping change of system as in the past-that on the contrary the principles which served as a pattern for rowing instruction last year will...
...Lehmann's arrival today has another more personal significance. It means that in him the University has a staunch personal friend, who is ready to give it the most practical sort of assistance day in and day out with the tenacity of purpose which fights for ultimate success and the patience which can endure to wait for it. Today, therefore, furnishes an excellent opportunity to express some hearty, outspoken appreciation. For this purpose it is proposed to give Mr. Lehmann an emphatic welcome in the square. The time is 2.45; the place is the corner of Holyoke street. Let everybody...