Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman crew, Coach Bill Leavitt made only one addition before going to Red Top. The new oarsman is Dean Wood, who will row at five. Although underdogs like the rest of the Crimson crews, the freshmen, encouraged by their performance against Princeton in the Compton Cup race, should give the Elis a close battle...
Freshmen--stroke, Mark Hoffman; seven, Pete Tullock; six, James Lenard; five, Dean Wood; four, Townsend Swayze; three, Jim McClennen; two, Tom Nuzum; bow, Paul Wolhford; cox, Barry Peale...
...Yale game, however, relieved a lot of the sting from the close defeats. Suddenly, everything seemed to go as it should, and as the New York Times said, "on the rapier thrusts of Barry Wood's forward passes Harvard marched to victory." Both touchdowns in the 13-0 win were scored by Huguley on passes from Wood. Notable, too, was Captain Ticknor's performance: observers say he played the best game of his career in the Yale Bowl that afternoon and was instrumental in stopping the Elis' Booth for the second straight year...
...Leonard Wood '31, violinist and publisher of the Arlington Advocate, led the Orchestra in Wagner's "Prelude to The Meistersingers," while 1,500 reunioners tippled to the Teutonic tunes. Balloons festooned the gilded balconies and 1931 Harvard banners emboldened the stern crenellations of Boston's biergarten...
...with Sculpture. Zorach tried his first sculpture, carved out of a butternut panel salvaged from an old bureau, while summering in 1917 in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Where Zorach felt that his paintings were derivative, he found that working directly in wood and stone gave him a sense of coming into...