Word: directness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheduled for yesterday, did not come off because several of the Brookline nine were unable to play. Instead of playing the regular game, the freshmen practiced as usual. The material for a freshman nine is very good, but the candidates are sorely in need of a good coach to direct their efforts...
Colonel Winslow believes that the bat should be grasped by the right hand as though the bat was to be swung by that hand alone. The left hand is merely to direct, while all the force of the blow should come from the right hand. The first principle of this system is that there shall be no swinging of the bat. The arms must be straightened at the same instant the step forward to meet the ball is taken. The ball ought to be met in front of the base and the bat should always be parallel to the ground...
Dante and Vergil, after passing Cato, enter what Dante calls the Ante-Purgatory. This is probably an invention of the poet, and has a direct allegorical interpretation. Through this place the poets travel during two days, and here Dante meets his former friend Cassella, the musician, who sings them that famous song, which is, perhaps, the most exquisite, and deepest in meaning of any we find in the Divine Comedy. On the third day the poets pass the gate of Purgatory, and find before them three stairways, the first of polished marble; the second rougher and dark in color...
...Columbia 'varsity crew rows on the Harlem every afternoon. Coach Peet supervises the men from a six-oared barge rowed by the substitutes. He is directing most of his attention to blade work and to a quick start on the recover. Pierrepont has not been stroking well of late, so Mr. Peet is trying Carter in that position, who is doing excellent work for his weight. The crew goes to the boathouse direct from college, and after practice has a run to quarters. They are under strict discipline while at the villa. A bath and a good rub-down follow...
...expected that hereafter some graduate oarsmen will be present twice a week to direct the work. The main coachers this year will be Percy R. Bolton, John Rogers, J. A. Hartwell and S. B. Ives...