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...members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot, wrote in 1865 that students could not find crimson because magenta was so in vogue, and thus had to buy the more popular color, “though abhorring it.” The baseball team went magenta in 1863 and the football...
...foot-three, 180-pound Farrell works his body as hard as his mind as a rower for the varsity heavyweight crew team. He is also a semi-accomplished thespian. For the past two years, Farrell has acted in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, a student-written and student-run production geared toward children. Hee also writes for the Harvard Current, works on the Junior Parents’ Weekend Committee and is involved with both the Institute of Politics and the community service group BASIC. And he is co-chair of the Mather House Council...
Harvard’s interest in the King boats, designed by former Harvard boatman Graeme King and produced by the fledging company Elite Boatworks, peaked when Jim Crick ’88, President of Elite Boatworks and former Harvard rower, brought Elite’s fifth boat to Cambridge...
Binkley, who rowed last season in the first freshman lightweight boat, is a veteran rower who is expanding his niche in the sport by designing boats...
With this year’s appearance in NCAAs, senior coxswain Mary Piscitello will become the first Radcliffe competitor to take part in four straight NCAA Championships. In addition, freshman stroke Caryn Davies will become Radcliffe’s second freshman rower to row in the varsity boat at NCAAs...