Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work with the Freshman crews is progressing rapidly under the favoring influences of perfect weather and excellent material. Coach Haines plans to make some changes in his crews this week with an eye to getting his men all out of the Leviathan and into barges. Those who are now rowing in the barges will undoubtedly be transferred to shells and the better portions of the Leviathan's crew will advance to the seats vacated by the barge men. While a few novices will still remain in the training ship it is hoped to have them all out by the next...
With his usual eagerness for an early start Bert Haines, coach of Freshman crew, has had his inexperienced oarsmen out on the river for two days, hoping to keep them there until cold winds slow them in about the middle of November. Haines great vehicle of instruction, the leviathan, has been making four or five trips daily filled to the last seat with aspiring novices. A. N. Webster '33, a crew letter man for his last three years in college is again helping Haines with the Freshmen. About 175 men have turned out for Freshmen rowing; and those who claim...
Later in the fall Haines will transfer his new men from the Leviathan into barges and sholls and let them practice for races at the end of the fall season...
Announced in Manhattan was a 20% cut in all classes of passage aboard the three large U. S. Liners (Leviathan, President Harding, President Roosevelt), plus a further reduction on de luxe accommodations, plus elimination of the increased rates for summer travel. Competing lines immediately met the issue. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line), Canadian Pacific, White Star. Red Star, Atlantic Transport and Cunard (which has been agitating for reductions since last year's report showed a ?533,000 net loss) cut prices in all classes an average of 20%. The newly consolidated...
Departing from the informal routine of the machines and the Leviathan, 80 Freshmen have been assigned to tentative crews to take to the water when weather permits. As yet the shells have not been arranged in any order of merit, but the men are to row in temporary units for the next week or two at least...