Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strongest views on that reprehensible form of amusement known as 'rushing,' I would say that whenever and-whenever you find one of your dear little playmates showing signs of smartness in his work, his talk, or his play, take him tenderly by the hand, by both hands, by the back of the neck if necessary, and lovingly, playfully, but firmly, lead him to a knowledge of higher and more interesting things...
...Each crew caught the water at the same time; the second boat held the Boston side of the river, the fourth the Cambridge side, with the third between. J. Cutler, stroking the third, at once brought his crew into the lead by a few yards, and the fourth dropped back behind the second by about the same distance; each crew was rowing 30 strokes to the minute. In this same relative position the first two crews swept under the Harvard Bridge, but the fourth eight had dropped back in the rear almost a full length. After the Harvard Bridge...
...stopping of grounders, have devoted much time to base sliding and to catching men between bases. In the latter department the work has been of a very poor order, while in the former it has not been of a much higher grade. The base sliding has consisted in sliding back to first base head first and sliding to second either head first or feet first. Considerable improvement ought to be shown in both departments by another week...
During the past week no radical changes have been made in any of the crews. The first boat has been on the river every day, despite the bad weather, and has usually rowed to the basin and back, accompanied by Coach Wray in the John Harvard. Yesterday, owing to the absence of Faulkner, Coach Wray went in at bow. Morgan is still stroking, and Waid is at five...
Face to face with the same problem that the University met back in the seventies, the CRIMSON now turns its back upon any possibility of putting the Hemenway Gymnasium into shape suitable to our modern needs, and will confine its efforts to bringing before every Harvard man the crying need of a new gymnasium. To that end we are publishing this morning a few facts about Harvard gymnasiums past and present...