Word: boats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HIGH tide at the boat-house for the next two weeks is as follows...
...YALE graduate has an elaborate article in the Springfield Republican on the management of the Yale-Harvard race. He recommends that a definite course, fixed by permanent landmarks, be decided upon, and that a standing committee of graduates and citizens be appointed to manage the whole boat-race. We object to his apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same...
...excellent plan, which will be found in another column, for the formation of a consolidated H. U. B. C. Next fall, if the transfer of the club property from Mr. Blakey to the students is completed, and if the arrangement proposed in this plan is carried out, a stronger boating interest, than ever might confidently be expected. Every one feels more or less imposed upon when obliged, after liberally subscribing for the crew, to pay an additional sum m order to obtain entrance to the boat-house, and yet another, and heavier, in order to enjoy the opportunity of rowing...
...hanging about them in any part. Let each man in the crew grab firmly all he can hold (and no more) and row well home without jerking. More ease and uniformity in all parts of the stroke and a better control of the various movements are necessary before the boat will be rowed steadily...
...what is needed now. Each member of the crew should endeavor to row every stroke as evenly as possible, and should never row one carelessly. The men still fail to realize the necessity of constant attention while at work. Not only when being coached, but from the time the boat is taken from the rests till it is replaced, must their earnest attention be fixed on what they are doing...