Word: oarsman
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...This prize, by permission of the donors, is to be offered in the future for club races. It is a great improvement that coxswains are to be used. Not only will this insure a clear race, but we shall be spared the mournful story of each defeated bow-oarsman, barred from victory by only a broken wire or twisted outrigger. It may not be idle to hope that the fouls of our next intercollegiate regatta will be avoided by this same means...
...science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river...
...although he speaks of the negligence of the judges who were placed at the finish, the compiler makes no mention of the "diagonal line." The rules of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, those of the Association of Amateur Oarsmen, the rules of betting, the definition of an "amateur" oarsman, several pages for memoranda, and various tables of more or less value to boating men make up the rest of a most useful little book. The price of the Almanac is 50 cents...
...should not be depressed; nor yet, vice versa, should victory make them too much elated; but in either case they should but work harder for greater glory at Springfield. Their crew is composed of good material, and only needs a competent coach to instruct them. We hope some accomplished oarsman in college will have their interests enough at heart to undertake the task...