Word: drives
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boat but it must be remembered that the development of the leg-work of the crew has no more than been begun. The crew has the watermanship and the good time of a fast crew and it is not too much to prophecy that it will soon have a drive with the legs which will mean speed...
...protest against the method pursued by a certain popular lecturer of Harvard in showing his displeasure at the unfortunate presence of those who are not students in his audiences. It would be a very simple draft upon his sense of courtesy to ask them politely to withdraw, but to drive them out by acts and words far from gentlemanly is a strange proceeding in Harvard halls. Let him remember that it was once said of Emerson, "He stood up, just as if he thought other people were as good...
...during the last three weeks, and the men are getting accustomed to their positions. The chief faults of the crew as a whole are poor time, and a bad hang at the full reach. The men have a tendency to rush their slides and do not get a firm drive with their legs...
Among the individual candidates there is a great diversity of ability. Bullard and Fennessy at bow and No. 2, respectively, are conspicuous for excellent body work and a strong drive with the legs. In comparison with these men the rest are inferior, the inferiority culminating in No. 7 and No. 8, who seem to have neither the power nor the smoothness...
...Crew.Owing to the appearance on the freshman rowing squad of several football men, there are now some 25 candidates. The first crew has been using the slide for two weeks. The method of the stroke seems to be a long swing of the body accompanied with a most excellent drive with the legs. The candidates are all muscular and few weigh under one hundred and sixty pounds...