Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospects are that the race Saturday will be close and exciting. The Tech. men have been training hard and are fully determined to win. The cuances are about even that they will succeed...
...plan for the work of his crew. One feature of that plan is slow rowing in barges. Aside from the fact that during the first few weeks on the river, any man has all he can attend to in handling his oar properly in and out of the water even while rowing easily, racing in barges is about as good practice for a crew as racing in rubber boots would be for sprint-runners. Barges are only necessary evils, and when a crew has its "form" well fixed, it had better get into a shell at once; until then, racing...
...water from the blade and keep the boat jumping between the strokes, all jerking appearance is avoided by the simultaneous heave of the shoulders at the end of the stroke. Indeed, the dominent virtue of this system of rowing is its smoothness and freedom from all apparent effort. Even in the excitement of a race, when the men are trying to pull the blades off the oars, the continuous pendulum-like motion of the body at the end of the stroke effectually veils their frantic efforts...
This year the prices of college books are lower even, than they were last year; yet better made purchases have enabled the Society to register a gain of profit...
...gain in the book department has not been so large as it has been in other departments because last year even, the Society had already nearly all the book trade it could handle...