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...graduate of Harvard and the Navy Department, the President could be two-thirds sure of being on the winning side in every race. Sizzling comfortably in the hot sunshine, the party saw Harvard's freshman and varsity, Navy's junior varsity win three races on the sparkling Severn...
...Donald Douglas was a young Annapolis midshipman who preferred sailing on the Severn and making model airplanes to studying navigation and naval tactics. One day Midshipman Douglas climbed to the second floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then...
...Severn the Jayvees and Harvey Love's Freshmen will race Penn and the Navy crews as the Yardling 150-lb, crew and the championship Eliot House boat meet Eli sweepers on the Housatonic at Derby. In the annual Goldthwait Cup regatta Harvard, Yale, and Princeton 150-lb, eights will compete on the Charles, the Jayvees rowing at 4:30, the Varsity at 5 o'clock...
Settling down to the first of five hard workouts before the crucial clash with Navy on the Severn this Saturday, the Varsity eight showed good from in a five-mile spin on the Charles yesterday. Rowing at a 24 and 26 count most of the way, the Bollesmen were put though several sprinting paces. There were no changes in the boatings...
...characterized as "always a good crew" tossed its hat into the championship ring by coming within 10 feet of Navy, Coach Walsh's Middies proved to be the Crimson nemesis last season, and with practically the same crew intact this year they may well upset Harvard on the Severn...