Word: watermen
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...noon the Freshman watermen will leave here to meet the team of Phillips Academy at Andover. Last year this institution had one of the strongest schoolboy teams in the country, and the yearlings will have a tough fight on their hands this afternoon...
Today the twelve schools which this year compose the Interscholastic Rowing Association begin their period of training at the B. A. A. and Union boat-houses. It is unnecessary here to recall the increase which this school rowing has made in the number of reasonably proficient watermen who have entered College with and since the present Junior Class...
...steps of the various Weld crews and the regular class crews men have worked their way up to the 'Varsity boat, while in the rivalry of competition and the zest provided by frequent races a great amount of green material has been worked into a set of fairly good watermen...
...goes on to say that, although he does not believe there is any physical injury in the boat-racing, yet "lads," as he calls them, are wasting their time, if they consider that the great object of this three years' stay at the University is to make themselves accomplished watermen. Before ending with a prayer that what is really an amusement may not become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still...