Head of The River Crews
1st & 3rd Trinity men rowed over each day to retain the headship for a third consecutive year.
Emmanuel women bumped 1st & 3rd Trinity on the first day to take the Lents headship for the first time since 2002.
Read more about this topic: Lent Bumps 2009
Famous quotes containing the words head of, head, river and/or crews:
“It is better to be the head of the chicken than the tail of an ox.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Better to cheat an old grey head than to trick a small child.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It is from quiet places like this all over the world that the forces accumulate which presently will overbear any attempt to accomplish evil on a large scale. Like the rivulets gathering into the river, and the river into the seas, there come from communities like this streams that fertilize the consciences of men, and it is the conscience of the world that we are trying to place upon the throne which others would usurp.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)