Word: sculler
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This discovery marks, not as some immediately imagined, something strikingly new on the local scene, but rather another step in an age-old unceasing struggle--that between man's progress and the single sculler on the Charles River...
...other hand, as man has progressed, the opposition to the sculler has armed itself with newer and more dangerous weapons. The cycle of the opposition's development, historians note, falls roughly into three overlapping periods...
...Kellys, says a friend, are "beautiful, physical people." Father Jack was a champion sculler; Grace's mother (who is of German descent) was a model, later the first woman physical education instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. Father Jack, who still takes his athletics seriously, went to England in 1920 to compete at Henley. But the Henley committee ruled that he could not compete because he had once "worked with his hands" and was therefore not a "gentleman." He went on to the Olympics, where he soundly thrashed the Henley winner, and triumphantly sent his sweaty green rowing...
...Harlon P. Hanson '46, director of Advanced Standing and a sculler, commented, "I'll have to get into condition for the conditioning...
...succession has worked well at Harvard since Reynolds and Rouner had four years apprenticeship at Newell. Wilde will no doubt do as well with his three years as a 150 oarsman and top sculler background...