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Preparations were made today for an intensive week of practice, weather permitting. The shells, already shipped previously have been put in running order under the supervision of Edgar Dennison, rigger, and will probably taste the water of the Thames in the first workout tomorrow morning...
Managers--H. H. Johnston '29, R. F. W. Smith '30, P. H. Clark '30, R. L. Scott '31. Waiters--David Shaw '29, F. S. Holmes '31, W. M. Rainbolt ocC., W. M. Dunn '30, Richard Kimball '31, M. L. Bell '30. Launch drivers--Fiske Rawlins '30, Arthur Sims. Rigger--Edgar Dennison. Boat builder--William Lutz. Retainers--B. S. Clark, John Simpson...
...World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole of the time his ship was beating round the Horn. And not only at sea, but on land is the sailor's life...
Besides Captain Platt and Coach Brown, the party going to Annapolis will include Rigger Edward Dennison, Assistant Managers J. M. Preston '28, and Hulburd Johnson '29, and probably Dr. E. A. Harding...
...continued to forge ahead in spite of the quicker beat of Yale. At the finish a gallant spurt sent the University oarsmen a full two lengths in advance of their opponents. The time for the mile course was 5m. 43s. The race was long delayed, owing to a broken rigger on the Yale shell...