Word: torpid
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...which rowing is indulged in at Oxford can be realized by reading the account in the Undergraduates' Journal of the "Procession of Boats" which passed and saluted the head boat when the races were over. The twenty-one racing-boats were followed on this occasion by twenty-two "Torpid Boats," making the number of "rowing men" on the river three hundred and forty-four. To man our first and second club crews forty men are needed; and certainly forty is a smaller part of the number of undergraduates here, than three hundred and forty is of the whole number...