Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshmen, of course, will learn a more simplified version and will discover the manly art of saying just enough. Upperclassmen will be encouraged to give free rein to the oarsmen and to check them up when frenzy conquers rythm. Although the complete course is not known, it is rumored that a complete day will be devoted to the perfection of making a graceful are when tossed into the water by a winning crew...
...from one crew to another and from heavy to 150-lb. squad will be continuous from the time that the weather permits eights out on the water until the University crew is announced right after the Spring Recess. Selections at the end of this competition are made by the oarsmen themselves on the basis of ability and personality. Each crew is after the man with whom they can work best and who, in turn, can get the most out of the eight which he coxes...
Capt. Fried lowered a lifeboat manned by young Chief Officer Harry Manning and eight oarsmen from the crew. The bow oar spoke Italian. In a shrieking wind, a tortured sea, the lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America...
...varsity boats. In addition to this shifting, the head coach adhered to his policy of rotating various men in the stroke position and also in the coxswain's seat. As in the past under Coach Brown, the ultimate choice of a cox will rest with the oarsmen themselves...
...spirit that prompts men to go down to the Charles in shells is an enigma to many undergraduates. The rhythmic monotony of a sport in which excellence is attained only after variety has been eliminated is a pleasure only to the initiated. But the large number of college oarsmen testifies to the fact that there is hidden in the chiseled motion of an eight a subtle fascination. The Harvard Athletic Association has always seen to it that facilities are available for everyone who wished to experience the peculiar pleasure of rowing, and today visitors marvel at the great number...