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Behind Comstock is Harry Hinckley at seven, and Ted Lyman will probably fill the number six slide although Bert Haines hasn't yet definitely announced the order of the seatings. Mike Marshall is slated for the five oar, Reggie Fitz remains at four, and Behn Riggs at three will complete the list...

Author: By C. PAUL Sheeline, | Title: TOM BOLLES NAMES CLASS REPORT -- COMBY CREW | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...tremendous volume of participants in rowing is handled by Weld efficiently because of strict limitations on the time for which a boat may be used; 45 minutes is the longest. By enforcing several simple rules, the coaches are able to avoid accidents and collisions with eight-oar crews and with the other individual boats to a great extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Scullers Throng Charles As Season Opens | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

They joked about our request to make them perform like trained animals, and said they were thinking of writing a play to present the seminar to curious visitors without any trouble to themselves. An informal discussion of Plato's Republic did start, however, with Neal putting in the occasional oar of the "specialist" in Government...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Head of Liberal Education Committee Reviews St. John's College; Describes Working of New Program | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

While a student in the University, he handled the bow oar on the Varsity crew and held the position of Class Secretary. In 1917 he received his LL.B. degree from the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Saltonstall Succeeds Cutler as President of Alumni | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...says he learned to scull by rowing himself and brothers to school on Rancocas Creek, which runs by the farm. At Penn he was captain of the crew, later sculled for Penn A. C. He was never any great shakes as an oar until he worked out a stroke which no one could beat or imitate-a jerky, robot-like chop with no layback, which gets his blades in & out from 38 to 45 times a minute (average sculler's stroke: 28 to 32). Until this winter, when he decided he was going stale, he trained all year round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rcmcocas Galahad | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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