Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...club house tomorrow evening. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside. The speakers will be; the Hon. William C. Loring '72, justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, who rowed on the Harvard crew in his undergraduate days; P. D. Trafford '89, of New York, who was a famous oarsman and football player, and will be the chief marshal at Commencement in June; C. B. Wood '98, of Philadelphia, who rowed in the winning crew of 1899; Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, who rowed while he was in College and for many years since then has been the medical adviser...
Captain Reynolds on behalf of the University crew has accepted Mr. Noyes' invitation to be present at the reading. Mr. Noyes was an oarsman in his University days, and has extended the present invitation in memory of this fact...
...with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise himself unnoticed and unlibelled by nature's young noblemen who frequent the river-front. But seriously, here is a chance for the landscape architect to plant something but formal gardens. The dormitories, the boat houses, the Stadium, and the new bridge are worth a setting...
During his two months' stay in this country, Mr. Noyes, has visited almost all the prominent educational centres, and has given a series of readings at Yale and other colleges. While at Oxford, he was an oarsman and still evinces an active interest in athletics and other features of undergraduate life. Mr. Noyes is a thorough and interested student of American literature, in particular the writings of some of our younger poets and novelists...
...custodian of the old Harvard boat-house in 1871, and he said, in the presence of several college crews, that these seats could not prove to be of any use. In 1872, Trowbridge entered for the spring races in singles, and with him Bob Russell, the strongest oarsman of his day in college, and with a number of other men. The others failed to come to the scratch, so that the race became as it were a try-out between the new-fangled seats and the old. Trowbridge beat Russell up to the turning-stake: but the Charles in those...