Word: selectness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...
...Those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer," are fully sensible of the interest that graduates feel in our boating welfare, and we earnestly hope that they will not only give us their views on rowing, but will also give us liberal subscriptions to the end that those views may be carried...
...fear is that there will be some idiotic idea of improving the stroke by engrafting upon it, and that, should Harvard win the next race, the persuasion of the necessity of starting from a sound basis will be deferred for years. I believe it would be better to select, for the crew, men of suitable physique who have never had an oar in their hands, and to send them to the fountain-head for their rowing education. THIS IS ENGLAND. There is no mistake at all about this fact, and I lose all patience when I hear the talk about...
...letter is, in a measure, a supplement to the one we published in our last number. The position of the writers of these letters, the strong ground they take, and the interest they show in our boating welfare demand, we think, some public recognition from those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer. The captain of the crew does not, we believe, agree with the views expressed by our two correspondents. If this is the case, we have a right to know his opinions, and to hear...
...candidates for the Freshman crew number over twenty, and the captain, Mr. Ware, will have no lack of material from which to select a first-rate crew. Before Christmas a challenge is to be sent to the Yale Freshman for a race to be rowed on the same day and at the same place as the University race, and in case this challenge is accepted, the candidates will leave the College gymnasium, where they are now at work from half after four until half after five each afternoon, for the boat-house gymnasium. The candidates run three nights...