Word: rower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rower Romer...
...which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
With a record of over thirty years as rower and coach in England, America and the Continent, "Bill" Haines, Head Coach of the University crew, stands today as one of the greatest figures ever known to University crew annals. Coming to the University in the fall of 1915, Mr. Haines, together with Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, developed a crew which set the record time for four miles on the Thames, broke Yale's string of crew victories, and gave the University a clean sweep of three triumphs on the Thames the next spring. For two years the war interrupted...