Word: bemoans
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...establishment is the enormous popularity among undergraduates of this form of rowing. Last year the record showed that sculls were taken out from the Newell and Weld boat houses more than 5,000 times. These figures naturally recall the days of 1876 when the college publications used to bemoan the fact that there was such a dearth of "pleasure-rowing" among undergraduates. Then there was the annual regatta in which scullers took part, as well as the Scratch races on the Charles. Their popularity was so distinctly feeble, that in the spring of '76, when only two candidates reported...