Word: rows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...price of tickets for the Princeton game will be: reserved seats in front row, $2.50 each; other reserved seats, $2.00 each; admission...
...coaching before the active season begins is extremely valuable, especially for the men who were taken up from the graded crews. All Freshmen are also urged to take advantage of this opportunity, and if a sufficient number of men report, Coach Wray will be on hand every afternoon. Active rowing work has been postponed this year in order that nothing may interfere with the College work of the men who expect to row in the spring...
...their curriculum, and not once a week or once a month, but once a day from October to June. At two o'clock you see them pouring out at their college gates, and at four or there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more of them play Rugby; four hundred and fifty play association football; two hundred perhaps play hockey, and the rest have other recreations; track athletics, lacrosse, cross country riding, motoring and so forth...
This for the winter months. But when the spring comes on apace, the sports change somewhat. Three hundred row, net the same three hundred always; four or five hundred play cricket; hundreds play tennis; and the rest go punting on the river, ride out into the country, or do something else for a couple of hours. The college halls are as deserted as Sahara. A man is seldom found, is almost ashamed to be found, is almost ashamed to be found within the quadrangles. He is out of the swim. If he can't do anything else, he takes...
...what does he do then? Sit down and warm a seat and cheer the others? Not he! He isn't that kind of a six-pence. If he can't do one thing he does another. If he can't row he tries cricket or Rugby, or association, or hockey, or lacrosse, or track athletics, or something else. He doesn't suck his thumbs or sit and holler "Oxford!" "Oxford!" He is fond of exercise, a couple of hours of it every day and he will have it. The result of this is he is always having or preparing...