Word: pair-oar
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...days have the men rowed in exactly the same order. On Monday, Tilton was late and Finlay got in at 6, Keyes at 4, Watriss at 2, and Herrick at bow. After rowing up to the abbatoir, Finlay got out and Tilton got in from a pair-oar. The rowing was poor, Tilton going back too far and Upham meeting his oar. The swing was ragged so that the crew did not look well at all. Tuesday, Nelson, Sp., got in the boat for the first time, Keyes remaining at 4. After a short row, number 2 broke his outrigger...
...Johnson, a candidate for the sophomore crew, while assisting in carrying a pair-oar at the boat house yesterday afternoon stepped in the space between the platform and gangway, and hurt his leg and hand rather badly...
Hutchinson, '90, has begun training for the crew. Yesterday he was out in a pair-oar, first with Powers, '92, and afterwards with Goddard, '92. There are five old men training for the 'varsity...
Thursday the crew were again on the river; Tilton being absent, Watriss rowed 6 and Powers 2. After some spins in front of the boat house, Keyes L. S. got out and Herrick '90 took the bow oar. Mr. Keyes '87 coached from a pair-oar which he steered. They went up a few hundred yards above the stonecutter's wharf at a stroke of 22 or 23 to the minute. The form of the crew was an improvement over their work on Tuesday, but the port side caught the water sooner than the starboard and the port men being...
Though the crew is not on the water, the river is open and two or three of the new men who need practice most with the oars go out every day in a pair-oar. Herrick coaches them...