Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon the Varsity and Junior Varsity went out separately, each going down stream about three miles and back, while Coach Whiteside tried to correct the flaws apparent in yesterday's trial. The Combination made a time trial over the two mile course for which no time was made public, while the Freshman again took it easy. Keyes is out of the 1935 boat for the remainder of the season with a sore back. Dow is taking his place at number four...
...fishing "as a finished art . . . much harder to master than dry fly fishing. ' Quoting directly from his field notes, Author Bergman tells about nights spent fishing Brandy Brook in the Adirondacks, days in which he did no fishing at all but sat watching a small stretch of stream to find out how its trout acted. Three years later he caught a trout in this part of the brook for the first time. Profoundly observant. Author Bergman caught trout on a wet fly by allowing it to sink, judging the depth by counting to a certain number, then striking...
...chapter on dry fly fishing. Author Bergman tells how to make slack line casts, how to study a stream: "Sometimes the water may look flat and uninteresting but close examination will reveal many small holes scattered here and there usually in each of these holes will be found trout. . . . No matter how shallow the water may be, it is always wise to fish where there are rocks of any size. . . Always the short cast is preferable to a long...
...events on the regatta schedule include a half-mile compromise race, a three-quarter mile doubles race and a mile "quad" race. All of these will be over the down-stream course. Since there are only boating accommodations for two crews in both the doubles and "quads", men intending to enter these races are requested to sign early so that the heats may be arranged. Although the regatta is considered to be inter-House competition, the winners will not represent House teams, but will be individual victors. All men who expect to enter the regatta must sign...
...main stream of pedagogical migration is from South and West eastward to the older, better known universities where salaries are generally higher, chances of fame better. But any chart of professorial movements would also show a trend toward such midwestern institutions as the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, an even more pronounced trend toward California. Last week occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace...