Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place. Let it be distinctly understood that there are to be club races this fall upon a certain date, - if the weather holds good the time should be delayed, - and that prizes will be given to the winning crews. As matters now stand there is some doubt among the rowing men whether there are to be any races this fall or not. In consequence men hesitate to join the clubs, for fear that they will not be able to row on any crews. If this doubt were dispelled many would join the clubs, and they will not join until they...
PHILIP.FRESHMEN, and others who row at all, are requested to enter next Saturday the single-scull race. Those who have formerly competed in this race will not enter this fall, in order that less experienced oars-men may have an opportunity of showing what they...
...crew who rowed in the Springfield and Saratoga races last summer there are but two now working. Of the last Freshman crew the captain alone has at this time definitely decided to row. Of the other candidates, two only ever rowed in a shell race, and this a Freshman race, two years ago. Moreover, the majority are under-sized men. The most superhuman captain, with such material to sustain him, could not make our chances brilliant...
That a crew can win the first position only by successive years of working together, the Yale and Cornell crews have plainly shown. For a man to row one year and then, when just brought to some excellence as an oarsman and prepared to be of value, for him to desert, is a culpable betrayal of his crew and of his college. It may be argued that a man has a perfect right to row or not; and so he has; but not to stop rowing when he has once commenced. His personality is merged in the crew, - a university...
...crew's drawbacks, however, are not confined to the desertion of the old members. There is great difficulty in finding suitable material to pick from. The large, strong, temperate men in college, who must form the backbone of a successful crew, refuse, almost to a man, to row. They invent countless trivial excuses lest they be disturbed from their peaceful somnolence and made useful to themselves and to Harvard. There does not seem to be a spark of enthusiasm where it can do any real good. Not a single volunteer worthy of present consideration has presented himself...