Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...method of coaching, it is understood, will be that of the old school, from which the younger generation of oarsmen at Harvard has long departed, but which has been clung to by Oxford and Yale...
...Still further, this same feeling is carried into the very life of the oarsmen. The crews mingle at Putney in a thoroughly delightful manner, exchanging social amenities at quarters, and on occasion following one another about the river in the coaching launch. There are no spying substitutes sent out to return with tales that neither deteriorate the form of the watched nor improve that of the watcher...
...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 or in singles, will do well to get as much coaching as they can from Mr. Donovan during his eight weeks' stay with the club. He will give special attention to those who are going to enter the races...
...striving to regain her prestige on the water. For two reasons the response of the freshmen is important. They are to produce a crew which will do battle with the Yale and Columbia freshmen next June, and, more important still, they are to produce oarsmen who will sometime occupy seats in the 'varsity boat. Let all who have any fitness at all for rowing crowd the trophy room tonight. Few men are competent to judge of their own abilities as oarsmen, and since the work will be light and not taxing for some months, no man need hesitate...
...from inside sources the story comes that they have beaten the two mile freshman record in a time row since they came to New London. They also stand in contrast to all the other crews this year, from the fact that they are to row by a professional oarsmen, Charles Courtnay. A great many college oarsmen look down on professionals as teachers of crew rowing, but Courtnay has from a comparatively small college sent out at least one crew in the last four years that could make Harvard or Yale work as they never did before...