Word: coxswain
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...them all. As to his argument concerning the right of the '87 men to pull in the class boat this year, it may be said that they are no longer 'Varsity men, and hence do not come under the rule respecting the latter. In the case of '88's coxswain, I do not get the drift of his very lucid argument, nor do I understand to what he refers when he says that the vote was due to a misunderstanding and that it is not yet settled. To what vote does he refer, and why has it not yet been...
...until the day before the class race and then disperse into their class boats, and row with other men with half the efficacy that poorer rowers who have been training together. The university crew cannot well join the class crews, if they would. And in the case of the coxswain, it is quite well known that when that vote was passed last fall that there was somewhat of a misundering, and that there is still. Such an argument seems to apply but poorly to the tug-of-war question...
...Varsity crew men do not row upon the class crews; the members of the 'Varsity nine never play upon the class nines, and the same holds good with the other organizations. Many remember the discussion which arose last year over the fact that the coxswain of the 'Varsity crew was put in his class boat in the spring races. Why, then, should the '88 tug-of-war team have this advantage over the others...
...Varsity rowed on the river for the first time yesterday. Perkins, stroke; Hale, Scholl, Davis, Wood, Butler, Russell; Keyes, captain; Brown, coxswain...
...following men now compose the '87 crew: Mumford, stroke; Burgess; Alexander, captain; Fiske, Coolidge, Bartold, Ayer, Dudley; Forchheimer, coxswain...