Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feared that Dartmouth will have only Wesleyan to row against at New London...
...received. As long as we entertain any respect for ourselves, as long as we desire to see college boat-racing raised above the level of street-fights, we must turn a deaf ear to such braggadocio messages as this one from Cornell. The spirit displayed by this invitation to row "in case we win the race with Yale" is the spirit of the prize-ring. There is a deep-seated feeling in the breasts of every one to see our crew row with a crew from Cornell and win the race. But self-respect is not to be lost even...
...same trouble comes into many of our affairs. There is no definite object for which a man can work. Time was when it was something to row well. A place on the crew was a thing to excite the ambition of any man. Now, there is no object sufficient to bring out the best material for the boat. How, in fact, can a man distinguish himself here, - make a name that every one will acknowledge was worth making? He may lead his class, and no one but his few rivals will care at all. He may be stroke...
...loafers have the easiest time and no one thinks the less of them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take a First Class in classics, and he will be known and respected. He may take a Fellowship, and have for a few years an independent income, unshackled by obligations and conditions...
...row, and if he becomes stroke of the crew, other men, no matter what their taste may be, will respect and admire him, as men on our crews have in times past been respected and admired. No one will call him a fool for his pains, and hint they could have done as well by making fools of themselves in the same way. If he rides, he will have admiration of another kind perhaps, but he will be acknowledged, all the same, to have done something...