Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates. It cannot help being a kind of stimulus to rowing in the University for this crew to enter at Philadelphia and go through the experience of such an important regatta. In a way it will raise the standard of all the Weld crews, and it will tend to strengthen the Weld Boat Club as an independent rowing organization distinct from the University and class crew system. Moreover, the crew has an excellent chance of winning this regatta also. The exceptionally good time made in the race last week, and the advantage of considerable racing experience, indicate that...
Owing to the poor showing of the Pennsylvania crew against the Naval Academy last Saturday, the make-up of the boat will be greatly changed. Megargee and Kregalius, both of whom rowed in last year's eight, have come out for the first time this year, and will greatly strengthen the crew...
...choice of Poughkeepsie as the place for the race, regardless of financial inducements, and because twelve men are being kept at the training table instead of the usual ten. Undoubtedly, however, the generous and thoroughly representative support of a crew, financially as well as in other ways, helps to strengthen class loyalty and arouses the members of the crew to do their very best. For these as well as for the material reasons, all those Freshmen who have not done so ought to contribute to the support of the crew, each as much as he can afford; and those...
...same side of his table. Such a scheme may be ridiculed as being Quixotic; it may be argued that it would take too long and that the men would forget each other's names, but if it is practicable, it should be done, for it would do much to strengthen the class spirit and thereby College spirit...
...idea of the second Mott Haven team is that it shall strengthen the first team by encouraging more men to train until the end of the season. If a man shows sufficiently promising work on the second team, he will, of course, be taken to the first...