Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clear, straight-grained Western cedar, selected and sent to Cambridge by Lewis H. Mills '14, a former Varsity oarsman, was used instead of the Spanish cedar of which all the shells now in use are made. This last named wood was usually ordered from South America by the H.A.A. and the future shells arrived as heavy logs. These had to be sawed, planed, and finished to the specifications of the Crimson boatbuilders after which the strips were brought out to the Newell Boat House and construction could be begun...
...fight which resulted in the removal from the Stock Exchange Control Bill in Washington of most of its rawest and most of its unworkable provisions. And under him the Exchange got through its first year of Federal regulation without serious mishap. His friends believe the burly onetime Harvard oarsman made the best of a bad situation, that he has been unjustly criticized, that he deserves the vindication of another term as president...
...former oarsman on the Varsity crew. Harris became famous during his years as Advisor on Religion at Harvard, for his informal talks with students on religious subjects. He intends this week to resume temporarily these talks and to chat informally with students who attend the morning services...
...done. See you at the races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early to the War Department, arranged that Yale Oarsman Livingston should be allowed furlough from camp in order to row. Father Franklin will watch Son Franklin row on the Thames next week...
...merry undergraduates are enthuslastic about those changes in exams, probation, and attendance that the College has made. Possibly they are a bit too Bolshevistic. Anyway, the following remark was made by an apparently abused oarsman the other day: "Say, I'm going to sue the College before they have nothing but a few optional lectures to offer a guy. These days a fellow has got to get his money's worth...