Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld senior crew, which won the race in the Metropolitan Regatta last Thursday, is going to philadelphia to row in the National Regatta of Amateur Oarsmen, to be held in that city on August 14. This step has been decided upon as a result of the interest taken in the crew by a number of graduates, among them Mr. Peabody, Mr. Weld, and Mr. Tudor, who witnessed the race...
...first place, fast as the English stroke may be, and well qualified as Mr. Lehmann may be to teach it, it is practically an impossibility for any oarsmen to make a very radical change in their system of rowing and master all the fine points of a new stroke all in one year. The Harvard crew is a fairly strong one physically, and we believe the rowing methods in vogue at Cambridge and Oxford to be the best adapted to eight-oared crews. But it must be remembered that Cornell and Yale, especially the latter, have crews which are excellent...
...result of this new development, therefore, it is most encouraging to see the intermediates give such a good account of themselves in competition with a crew of veteran oarsmen which includes a number of recent 'Varsity men. It is another proof that the system is not merely an attractive theory, but a practical and efficient fact...
...graduated from Harvard in the class of '60, rowing bow in the 'varsity crew of that year, and being regarded as one of the best oarsmen of his day. On July 10, 1861, he entered the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry as captain, but changed to the cavalry and became a captain of the First Massachusetts Cavalry. Captain Crownishield became major of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry in 1863, and succeeded Colonel Charles Russell Lowell as commander of the regiment Oct. 21, after the latter's death at Cedar Creek. On March 13. 1865, Colonel Crowninshield was brevetted brigadier general "for gallant...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 17.- Interest in the work of the college oarsmen centred this afternoon in the Cornell crews, who took their first spin on the river shortly after 5 o'clock...