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...Freshmen have fitted up a small room, outside the Yard, with rowing weights, etc., and the following men are working for their class crew: Brigham, Crocker, Katsenbach, Price, Schwartz, Sheafe, Sheldon, Shillito, Smith, Weld, and Welles (Captain). Mr. R. C. Watson, who rowed on the crew of '67, will coach the Freshmen when the river opens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...notice is published in the Record, requesting "all those in college who weigh less than 110 lbs." to call upon Captain Cook, who proposes to select from the number a coxswain for the University crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...Dartmouth has a very sensible editorial about the action of Yale and Harvard. It pronounces Harvard "manly" for "withdrawing at a time when she will receive countless flings on account of never having won a race." It is somewhat annoyed at Captain Cook's alleged statement that Yale has a rivalry with Harvard alone, and consoles itself with the reflection that, whatever the Captain may think, the "majority" consider Dartmouth, etc., very formidable rivals. It admits that "colleges with an abundance of men and an abundance of money must dislike having to give up cherished plans for the sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...reports of the Secretary of the class, the Captains of the foot-ball eleven and base ball nine, and the Secretary of the crew, were first read and accepted, after which remarks were made by the Captain of the crew, and Mr. Weld, '76, urging the great need of additional and liberal subscriptions to both the Freshman and University crews, and also proposing that a committee of five be appointed to manage the interests of the Freshman crew. Messrs. Welles, Mulligan, Van Rensselaer, Wright, and Crocker were appointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...following class officers were then reelected: President, E. B. Putnam; Secretary, E. Hale; Captain of the crew, J. W. Welles. Mr. A. Crocker was elected Secretary of the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »