Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rowing seems to be the most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth doing, requires long, faithful practice. If our readers don't believe it, let them go down...
...marked characteristic of the other candidates for this year's crew. Smith has, of course, fallen some what behind the others during his absence. There is a general looseness and awkwardness about his shoulders; he gets his hands away from his body too slowly, and is consequently inclined to bucket. Simmons uses his slide too soon in the recover, and seems unable to get down between his legs when on the full reach. Stow constantly fails to keep his shoulders firmly back, and has a trick of meeting his oar. He and Simmons, while strong promising men, are still...
...fallen off, and the men have not improved on the recover as fast as desirable. The captain, who has been coaching most of the time since the holidays, last week took stroke's lever, - Schwartz going to 6, and LeMoyne, '78, to 4. Bancroft has an inclination to bucket, to screw at the finish, and does not always get his hands out properly. Brigham and LeMoyne, '78, have both improved on the use of their slides. Brigham does not set his shoulders firmly at the catch, and he lets them "give" when he takes hold. At times he fails...
...seven hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. In the absence of W. M. Le Moyne, Crocker pulled at "6." Brigham, who pulled "5" to-night, uses his slide too soon in the stroke, gets hardly enough body reach forward, and when he tries for more, is inclined to "bucket.' He does not shoot his hands out and pull them in on the same level, is inclined to pull them in too low, and goes back too far. Brigham is one of the strongest men that are trying, and pulls with more fire than any other. The men need...
...acquired in spite of the training they receive. Besides, they say, English scholarship, even if allowed to be due to these systems, furnishes a very weak argument in favor of their maintenance; as all that England does to increase the world's knowledge is but a drop in the bucket when compared with the achievements of the scholars of Germany, where, at the universities at least, competitive examinations and rich fellowships are entirely unknown. It is asserted that, by the English system, all inclination for original research is not only not fostered, but is even repressed. If these objections...