Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...clear to everybody that the success of rowing at Harvard depends on the broadest and most systematic plan of competition that can be produced. The old class crew scheme has proved inadequate, for it cannot possibly begin to handle 500 men and give them all races. The best that the class crew system can do is to provide rowing for twenty or twenty-five men in each class...
...method must be devised by which more men could receive instruction, and be given a chance to row and to row in races. The Weld Boat Club, with a membership of about 400, was already in existence, and prospering. But it had no rival. There were the Weld class crews, but there was no really hard competition excepting among themselves. Under these circumstances the Newell Boat Club was founded, partly to relieve the great pressure at the Weld, but more especially to provide a strong rival for the Weld here at Harvard. It was also thought that these clubs would...
...first place the club did not have very attractive quarters. Neither did it have anything like the proper equipment. Then again the professional instructor did not understand the work very well, nor did he fall into the spirit of it, so that such crews as did got out received no coaching at all. The greatest difficulty of all, however, lay in the fact that in the same house, and standing side by side with this club, were the class crews. These class crews were made up of supposedly the best material in the classes, and therefore at the head...
Then came the graded crews, and the Newell club took on the semblance of activity. But it amounted to nothing, for the only people who took any interest were those rowing in the graded crews, which were practically Varsity trial eights, and outside of these there was nothing. After the University crew squad was selected the club practically ceased to exist, and in the pleasantest period of the year there was no rowing at all at the club. It then became evident to every one that the scheme had proved to be a complete failure...
...order to insure this success it must have at least a fair share of the best men in College actively interested in it. To accomplish this it has been decided to give up the old system of selecting the class crews. The present plan is to have each club get out one (or more) class crews from each of the three upper classes and the Law School. Each pair in the same class (that is, the two Law School, the two Senior, the two Junior, and the two Sophomore crews) are to race together about April 7th to determine which...