Word: spring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dormitory rowing, which has been carried on with unlooked for success for the past two years, will also begin this week and the work of the candidates will be closely watched for promising material for the University and class crews next spring. Freshmen who are not playing football are especially needed as there will be no regular Freshman rowing this fall...
...that is needed. Currier, Simons, McCall and Leonard have played together for two years and will doubtless continue in their same positions. Briggs has fitted in splendidly at first base. Other infield candidates are Pritchett '08, who has substituted for Leonard in several of the games this spring, Brown '10, Gardner '10 and Hall...
...Freshman Debating Club. During the year, each of the clubs has had about 40 active members, who were divided into teams of four men each. These teams met each other in a series of debates on questions of current college and public interest, which ended just before the spring recess...
...University and Freshman crew squads were called out for spring rowing soon after the mid-year examinations, and since then the squads have been gradually cut down, until the combinations have at last been selected. This year all the Harvard crews have struggled against unusual difficulties in the way of sickness and continued cold weather. The ice was later than usual in leaving the Charles, and even after it finally went, the late winter made rowing decidedly uncomfortable. In regard to sickness, Captain Bacon is the only man that has been in the boat since the season started. Richardson...
...Glass '08, who was moved from number 4 to 6, is the heaviest and tallest man in the boat. He was a candidate for the 1908 Freshman crew, but was taken sick and unable to row in the spring of 1905. Last year he rowed 4 in the Cornell and Yale races; but he contracted water on the knee in England last summer and was unable to take part in the race against Cambridge. He pulls a very powerful oar and has mastered the Wray stroke Glass is a very reliable man and is especially valuable on account...