Word: oarsman
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...yearly expenses. There are excellent lockers and bathing accommodations for more than three hundred; therefore, as a final inducement to men who were thinking of joining, but have about decided to put it off a year, the club has secured the services of Mr. Donovan, an oarsman who has had considerable experience as a coach. Members can make appointments with him at the boat house any afternoon from one o'clock to five. Members of the University who wish to get healthy and pleasant exercise, whether they are experienced oarsmen or beginners, whether they row in four-oars...
Hartwell, the former Yale oarsman, is coaching the Yale crew...
...been given the students. Rowing was then introduced under careful supervision, and aroused such interest that 175 of the young women competed for positions on the crews. The class of '96 raised $2,500 to build a boat-house last year, and Dr. W. A. Brooks, a former oarsman of Harvard coached the crews...
...Meikelham, the noted Yale oarsman, has been appointed referee for the Columbia - Cornell freshman race...
...makes it his profession in the sense that Mr. Lathrop makes it his profession to train the candidates for the Mott Haven team. The success of this team forms an instructive contrast to the failure of our crews. Moreover, the trainer of the crew need not necessarily be an oarsman himself any more than Mr. Lathrop is a sprinter. An intelligent trainer can make himself master of the art of applying ones muscles to an oar without himself actually excelling in the art. Such a trainer might be sent to England to study the art of rowing in an eight...