With the Rowing Club
MOVING FROM infancy to a full grown "small college crew" last season, the Dartmouth Rowing Club is now making plans for what will be their third year of intercollegiate competition. Snow covers Hanover after a particularly snowless winter, but blustering March winds do not prevent a group of some seventy undergraduate rowing enthusiasts from making their daily excursions to the gym to take their crew workout.
Last fall's practice was in the nature of pre-season training in preparation for this spring, and saw the Connecticut River swept by shells with more men than have ever before answered Coach Smith's call. Over 80 freshmen alone reported, although there was a large group who were green at this sport. Among the varsity turnout there were many prospects, and the promise is that there will be keen competition for the seats in the 1938 varsity eight.
The loss during the summer of Ralph Beetle '06, beloved Hanover resident and professor of Mathematics who took time off from his professorial duties to keep a guiding hand on the young crew, has been keenly felt by the organization, which has fortunately found a new friend and adviser in PrOf, "Andy" Scarlett '10.
The close of the fall season marked the end of the services of the executive committee which for two years shouldered the responsibility of increasing the club's equipment, from two shells in 1935 to five shells, a boat house on the Connecticut River, and a power launch in 1937. Presi- dent Gil Tanis turned the management over to a new group of men, as Jack Faunce '4O, was named president; Bob North '39 manager; and Elliot Foster '4O and Bill Wotherspoon '4O as executive assistants.
The spring schedule, tentatively ar- ranged when this went to press, included races with Manhattan College, a Cornell eight, and a meet with the American In- ternational College of Springfield for the varsity, with one or two as yet unarranged races for the freshmen.
Through the continued generosity of ex- Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, who since his initial gift to the club, has given an additional thousand dollars for the run- ning expenses and improvement, and through dues from the members, the row- ing organization has been able to main- tain this expensive sport at Dartmouth with no financial support from the Athletic Council. However, this body has been be- hind the young oarsmen ever since they began, and announced unofficially that should the crew turn in a particularly suc- cessful season this spring there might be a possibility of recognition in the form of letters and numerals to the varsity and freshman eights. This would provide a powerful stimulus to the movement, and would foster even more support for it among the undergraduates.
