Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew itself is light, averaging eight pounds lighter than the '87 freshman crew, and four pounds lighter than the '86 crew. After getting on the water, the crew developed many bad faults; the men rushed the recover and hung badly at both ends of the stroke, they slumped on the finish, their time was poor, and they failed to get in their weight. It can not be expected that a freshman crew will row in anything like perfect form; but after making due allowance for this, the outlook was discouraging. The men seemed to work hard and conscienciously without making...
...however, a decided change for the better began to be noticeable. This improvement was due partly, though not wholly, to the fact that the crew changed from the '87 boat into the new '85 shell. Since then the crew has braced up and improvement has been steady. The bad fault of rushing the slide in coming forward has been to a great extent over-come; but more improvement in this particular is necessary. The slump at the finish has been partly overcome, though some of the men, especially 3, need to pay strict attention to this point. The time...
...fizzles a little on the finish; his chief fault is that he does not pay attention to time or to the boat. 3: very hard worker, but gets in work at the wrong time; does not get weight on to his stretcher until half through his stroke; has bad jerk at finish; slumps badly at finish, and swings back too far; covers his blade well at the beginning. 4: works hard, and is getting a good deal of work out of the crew; swings back and forward too far; should try to work more from his stretcher and less from...
...this season. If there is anything which disgusts spectators it is to see a man fail to make a base when opportunity is offered, or try to run more bases than his hit will give him, or, worst of all, caught nap ping at his base. It seems too bad that a nine which does such brilliant work in the field and at the bat should mar its record by a fault which can so easily be corrected...
...surroundings. The rich and the poor, the extremely pious and the extremely liberal, the moderatists, the sages and geniuses and the dunces and fools, the sociable and the unsociable, the sensible and the cranky, those whose aim is mental and moral and those whose aim is physical excellence, the bad and false and the good and sincere, are all commingled in the different college classes. And they but form a world in miniature, differing not at all in its inward nature form the real and large world; so that to be among them is only to be schooled...