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Everyone knows about crew. Freshmen get attractive letters from boathouse legends introducing them to the exotic, muscle-bound world of the oarsperson. And any dining hall is sure to have a table full of crew jocks comparing ERG scores and tales of post-stadia nausea...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: They're Makin' Waves in the Charles | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...never gets too cold to row, as any oarsperson will testify, it just gets too cold to row outside. Training goes on, and on, in the boathouse tanks, which, if you've never wintered by the Newell waterside, look like kiddie pools for grownups with oars...

Author: By Lillian C. Jen, | Title: Where Have All the Oarsmen Gone? | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...pick one next to President Bok on the 50-yard line, you decide to consider the view of the Veritas in the center of the field from every possible angle and height in half an hour or less. That is what is known as a tour, and as any oarsperson knows, a tour has 37 stadia. (There are 37 sections.) Calling them stadia (rather than stadiums) makes doing them sound refined-but even stadia produce sweat in considerable quantities...

Author: By Lillian C. Jen, | Title: Where Have All the Oarsmen Gone? | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

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