Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...best place to start is at the top. At this very moment, Erich Segal's Love Story (New York: Harper and Row, $4.95) is at the very top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard '58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathon and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie. Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this...
Parker, in a very real sense, has formed the Harvard rowing philosophy. Unlike Nash, who took over head coaching duties from Burk this year at Penn, Parker shuns the gungho, Storm Trooper approach that has been a trademark of the Quaker program since Nash's arrival. He is the master tactician, never panicking, highly analytic-and thus inspires the highest confidence in his oarsmen, win a race, there's no question about it," says senior Charlie Hamlin. "His stress on style and conditioning as well as the calm, rational attitude he takes has convinced us that if we row...
...came down to the fact that we knew that no crew can row a 48 down the course that early in the season without paying for it later in the race," Evan feels. When Penn was ahead, it wouldn't hurt them to jump the stroke. When it was bow-to-bow, it was fatal...
...that reason, primarily, that several Harvard oarsmen believe that what is true at the Sprints would be true at the I. R. A., or at Henley, or anywhere Harvard met Penn after their first race. When both crews row their best, Harvard seems to win. That is what the Crimson proves to itself at Worcester. And that is why Harvard rowed at New London, rather than at Syracuse, last June...
...Board members are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College; Louis W. Cabot '43, a Boston industrialist; John J. Iselin '56, vice president of Harper and Row; Donald Kennedy '52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; and Wade H. McCree Jr., a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit...