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...Doolittle '86, who also stayed during last spring break. Before there was a vacation meal plan, he said, "It was kind of a pain--a lot of people would have to store up cereals," even though Friends of Harvard Rowing helped fray some of the costs by giving each oarsman $30 for the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Will Offer Meal Plan To Students Staying For Spring Break | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Toad drove his pencil onward. Grudgingly, he thought, This is rather interesting. His handwriting, spasmodic at first, began to settle after a time into rhythmic, regular strokes, growing stronger, like an oarsman on a long haul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Everyone in Captain Wally Obermeyer's boat is an experienced oarsman, among its members are products of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton rowing programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Alte Achter to the Rude and Smooth | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

Making an effort to seek out novice talent has been very profitable for Harvard. "Last year was the first since I've been here in which we didn't have a former novice oarsman on the varsity," Parker says. "As a rule, there are always several members of the first freshmen, varsity and JV crews who have never rowed before college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pedalling Crew to the Freshman | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...ship docks at Shanghai. He is a big man, good with his hands, though a little slow with his schoolbooks. One of Treadup's best assets is the ability to immerse himself in % drudgery, a fate he prepared for as a farm boy in upstate New York and an oarsman for Syracuse, where he heard the call to Jesus. Superficially, Treadup is a model of muscular Christianity. But he is also built to carry a good deal of symbolic weight. "What is moving in his story," writes Hersey, "what may in the end be thought to redeem the obvious failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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