Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Conn., June 7--Undervery favorable weather conditions, the Harvard University eight had its first time time trial over the four-mile course here today, and finished after 21 minutes 19 seconds of steady rowing. Captain Watts set an easy beat of 27 strokes to the minute for three quarters of the distance, the jayvee eight accompanying the first boat this far and then stopping. Swimming into the last mile, the first crew raised its beat to 36, and in the closing 300 yards the stroke went up and up until a racing pitch of 43 was reached. Such...
...five upper classmen who will row on the combination eight are C. N. Comstock '30, Edward Hamlin Jr. '29, D. R. Kroell '29, J. S. Wintringham '30, and Roger Donaldson '30. With Richard Kimball '31, as coxswain the crew will be rounded out with three of the following oarsmen: Lawrence Grinell Jr. '31, J. I. Lawrence '31, E. L. Millard '31, R. I. Vaughn...
...President Calvin Coolidge. Last week however they saw nothing similarly humorous in the following dialogue, which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean...
...more than useful improvement for the benefit of Rotton Row riders was suggested recently by dashing Major George Melas, once private secretary to the late King Constantine of Greece. George Melas created a furor among smart, horsey people by proposing that a special riding track with fences (hurdles) be laid out adjoining the Row. Added he: "It would not only promote real horsemanship, but would also afford a display of skill to pedestrians who go to the Row to watch the riders going aimlessly up and down the same straight, monotonous line, showing only that they can hold a saddle...
...CRIMSON hopes that the present state of affairs will not continue much longer, and in the meanwhile is glad to offer her congratulations to the honest citizens of Newspaper Row, the Herald, Post, and the Globe, who though they are not lacking in energy, played the game according is the rules...