Word: oarsman
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...canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between the coxswain and the fisherman. In another race an oarsman was hit in the forehead by a stone cast by some malicious hooligan; it's a great West Side legend that he did not stop rowing...
...someone uninvolved in rowing, all this talk about racing more than six months away must seem ridiculously premature. But, to an oarsman, such aspirations get him through long winter hours in the tanks, endless ergometer pieces, and, in the early spring, powering down the Charles frozen to his oar with the coach's launch scouting ahead for still floating...
Some Kirkland House sources speculated early this spring that Wacker might be a possible replacement for Arthur Smithies, whose tenure as Master--if not his position as the most dedicated oarsman on Harvard's faculty--came to an end with his retirement as Ropes Professor of Political Economy this spring. But Bok lighted on Evan Z. Vogt, professor of Anthropology. And as Co-Masters of Winthrop, where Bruce Chalmers, McKay Professor of Metallurgy, also retired, Bok picked William R. Hutchison, Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, and his wife...
...that contest, a Harvard oarsman caught a massive crab in the first ten strokes of the race, leaving the Crimson a length behind with the race hardly begun. The Tigers staved off a furious Crimson charge at the finish and held on to win by the narrowest of margins, a scant .2 seconds...
...four-oared shells lined up to race a Huskie oarsman yelled across the water to a Northeastern pair passing by. "Hey Sam," he shouted, "stick around for the preview of the Sprints." The Northeastern four won that race; Saturday may be different...