Crew

With no little pomp, the Dartmouth Rowing Club christened and launched two eight-oared shells on Lake Mascoma, April 26, and made rowing at Dartmouth a reality for the first time since 1877. While a crowd of 1,000 students and townspeople looked on, Mrs. Hopkins smashed bottles of Connecticut River and Lake Mascoma waters over the two shells donated by Phillips Exeter Academy, and christened them Phillips, for John Phillips who founded Exeter and Andover Academies after attending Dartmouth, and Ledyard, for John Ledyard who as an undergraduate in 1773 went down the Connecticut in a canoe and from the mouth of the river set sail around the world.

* After the christening ceremonies, which involved chunks of New Hampshire granite as well as symbolic waters, Jack Odell '3s< Prime mover in the rebirth of crew at Dartmouth, led his oarsmen down to the float which the Mascoma Improvement Society had contributed to the exciting cause, and Phillips was launched in the smooth waters of the lake. This first Dartmouth crew in more than 50 years included men from every class in College, with Philip Hemphill '35, who represented Tabor Academy in the Henley Regatta in England, in the coxswain's seat. In the squad of 60 crew candidates, a number of men are experienced oarsmen from such rowing schools as Kent, Exeter, Culver, Tabor, Choate, and Salisbury.

About two weeks after the launching of the eight-oared shells the Williams Boat Yard of Foxboro, Mass., donated a fouroared shell to the Dartmouth Rowing Club, making it possible for 20 men to take to the water at once.

Under the guidance of Coach James Smith, whom the Rowing Club has brought up from the Union Boat Club of Boston, the squad has been working on an informal basis for almost a month. Blade work and rhythm have been the main objectives of this initial period, and the Club leaders are satisfied that a foundation has been laid for developing the sport next year, possibly along interclass lines. The Recreational Department has cooperated this year by granting recreational credit to crew candidates, and it is hoped to fit rowing into the 1934-35 intramural program.