Word: oarsman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Peabody from the Law School. His departure merits more than a passing notice, for his absence will be felt not merely by the Crew itself, but in all our rowing interests. The value of Mr. Peabody's work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that few men have ever done more in a year to improve Harvard...
...spring the hardy oarsman tempts the Charles's turbid stream...
...occasional accident. Yet it is exceedingly annoying for the Crew to be obliged to alter its course to avoid running down a "gentleman four," or some tyro in the art of sculling, who has got caught in a bridge. At Oxford no mercy is shown to any unfortunate oarsman who gets in the way, and it is the custom to fine heavily any crew that interferes with the course of the University boat. Perhaps the treasury of our H. U. B. C. might be advantageously filled in this way. At all events, if beginners would keep on neutral water...
...GEORGE LEE, the Newark amateur who so nearly won at Henley last year, has become a professional oarsman, and has made his first match with J. A. Kennedy of Portland...
...together an existing class six, already flushed with victory, than to organize de now a college eight or even four. Particular classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class rather than to the name of his college...