Word: wright
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After having used the English style of rigging on their shells for three years, the crews of the University of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of Coach Wright, will test out the American swivel oarlock system this spring. A new eight-oared shell fitted with swivel locks is being built, but the old shells rigged with thole pins will not yet be discarded...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...
...list of examinations to be held today and tomorrow together with the places follows: Examinations Today. Chemistry 22 Arnold to Ober (inclusive) Sever Prentice to Wright' (inclusive) Sever Economics 3 Adams to Hartley (inclusive) Harvard Hathaway to Wood (inclusive) Harvard Economics 34 Harvard Engineering Sciences 3 Albright to Lawrence (inclusive) Pierce 302 Lee to Worcester (inclusive) Pierce 307 Fine Arts 10a Robinson Hall Government 15 Sever 6 Military Science 1 Adams to Kellogg (inclusive) Upper Massachusetts Kestnbaum to Ferkins (inclusive) Sever 17 Phinney to Thomson (inclusive) Sever 18 Tiffany to Young (inclusive) Sever 23 Examinations Tomorrow. Astronomy 3a Astron...
Associate member: Miss Bertha M. Boody, Miss Margaret M. Wright...
Pennsylvania oarsmen have ordered a new eight-oared shell from Davy, the boat builder of Cambridge. It will be of the swivel type and will embody a number of Coach Wright's own ideas. Last year Pennsylvania used the tholepin, but Wright has had more experience with the swivel, having been accustomed to this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom...