Word: oarsman
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...does the English oarsman ever become overtrained; not because he puts less into his training than the American, but because he is blessed with a peculiar psychology which enables him to look on sport as sport and not as a grind. The Oxford or Cambridge 'hearty' talks rowing, thinks it and, in fact, lives for nothing else. At this point I might refer to what we would consider a most inefficient method of selecting and developing a crew. In the early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen...
...came out for rowing this spring. Crew is a sport in which the man who has never rowed before should concede no advantage to the veteran. Many specific incidents could be cited of men who had never rowed before coming to college making University crews. Any inexperienced oarsman will be welcomed at the Boathouse this spring. Under the system outlined above, such men will be insured of all possible opportunity to make good in rowing. The coaches will watch them as carefully as the veterans, for they will be put in boats with the latter. This applies to Freshmen...
...crews made up of graduate students and a few College officers, and in 1858 took part in a regatta in the first shell ever to appear on the Charles. The choice of crimson as the Harvard color arose out of the fact that Mr. Eliot and a fellow oarsman chose red silk handkerchiefs as the color for the Harvard crew in that regatta. He was doing full College work during this rowing period, besides superintending the construction of Appleton Chapel and a house of his own, which he occupied next fall on his marriage to Miss Ellen Derby Peabody...
...Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5? Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker...
...seating gives an inkling as to some of the men who will face the Yale second eight. The crew left the float as follows: how, Perkins; 2, Watts: 3. Vance; 4. Howe; 5. Gates; 6. Weymer; 7. Barry; stroke, Pendar; coxswain. Pforzheimer Vance, a class crew oarsman, was merely filling in, as there were not enough men on hand to complete the crew...