Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret" of Bert Haines' work with the 150-pounders can be simply put: he is in love with rowing; the Freshman learns quickly through hearsay and demonstration that for him one's rowing is the thing that there are no other criteria. This fact is a big one in crew, where men are jumped from beat to boat daily, and where they row as one, without resentments, or collapse halfway down the course...
...cavalry and firehorse-piloting period is over, but Bert Haines' sculling genius is very much a thing of the present. In addition to making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide...
Three in a row will be the cry today when the Varsity travels down-stream to meet its Cambridge neighbor, M.I.T. It will be home-coming for Crimson mentor Bob Maddux who coached the Engineers lacrosse ten before moving to Harvard...
When the show starts tonight, seated in the first row will be J. Jay Hughes '48, who with an astute eye recognized "Miss Juno," and won for his pains a date with Ray Nichols, Miss Massachusetts...
Apparently the Varsity crew likes to see other college oarsmen row, and for the second successive Saturday, they seized the best vantage point--first place, this time against Navy, M.I.T., and Penn on the Severn River at Annapolis...