Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes and you will understand what I mean...
Yesterday the first eight was minus the services of W. T. Emmet '29, veteran No. 7, who is being given a short rest. His place was taken by James Lawrence, Jr. '29, bow oar, and the crew was stroked by Harrison. R. L. Vaughn '31 came up from the class crew squad to fill in at bow. The eights paddled separately from the Perkins Institute to the Newell Boathouse, a distance of about three and one half miles. The beat was kept low for most of the distance but was raised gradually to the high 30's at the finish...
Williams, Robert Gilmor Jr. '31, and G. C. Rand '32 are the new pilots in the club. Williams has just received his license and those of the other two are expected in a short time...
...this week, Harrison will undoubtedly prove his worth within the next few days. He is tall, heavy, and possessed of a great deal of racing experience but whether or not he will shape up to the requirements for a good stroke oar whether Gains to be seen. In the short stretches he sends his crew along with about the same amount of form as the first eight cut the crucial test which comes in raising the beat is still...
...visited Europe can testify to the irksomeness and general loss of time involved in meeting this payment in travelling through the various countries. Not only may it well amount to a considerable sum of money, but the trouble involved in a visit to the consulate may make a short trip to a country scarcely worth while...