Word: sank
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Shortly afterwards the Sophomore boat sank, leaving the Senior crew the only one afloat. Luckily the steam launch was close by the Sophomores as they went went down and picked up all the men. Both boats were towed in to the B. A. A. float and left there for the night...
...have no fear for the star athlete, the cream of our young men, who have gone, but I do fear for the men who were discouraged because they could not make the first team, and sank back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary...
...continued until about 4.30 o'clock when the competing eights swamped. This happened in the third event of the day's rowing, when the two first club crews, Eliot and Thayer, raced. They started at the Cottage Farm Bridge and were just below the Harvard Bridge when they sank because of the rough water. Thayer had, however, crossed the line one-half length ahead. All the oarsmen were picked up by the John Harvard and a Metropolitan Park Police launch...
...other endowment is in memory of E. B. Thompson, Yale '04, whose life was lost when the Lusitania sank. A scholarship of $600 annually in the Sheffield Scientific School is to be awarded to graduates of the Shield High School, Seymuor, Md., from which institution Mr. Thompson was graduated. The fund is established by his widow...
...steady rain, today's practice was very light. The morning practice, which Coach Wray directed from his single, consisted of a few short-brushes between the Freshmen and the second crew, in which the latter showed a slight superiority. The boat of the Freshman four filled with water and sank just as the float was reached. In the afternoon the crews paddled down to the Navy Yard, which is the half-way mark in the course. This time the Freshmen had several sharp tussles with the University but were beaten even with the University rowing a slower stroke. In spite...