Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...schedule of games to be played by the University of Pennsylvania eleven, as far as it has been arranged is as follows...
...subject is the only way to get at a satisfactory plan of action. The boating men in college will do well to consider the article that they may see whether there are not some suggestions in it, which, if carried wholly or partially into effect, might go far towards raising Harvard to her old proud position in intercollegiate athletics...
...college had proved themselves good oarsmen, but the standard of rowing, like everything else, is continually improving, and to keep up with this advance a man must not only follow the improvements most carefully, but it is so necessary for him to test each of them practically, for rowing, far more than any other sport is learned by the sense of "feeling" rather than by observation only, and no man can successfully teach it unless he has practiced what he teaches...
...most striking. The Yale crew carefully covered their oars at the beginning of the stroke and kept them covered to the end, maintaining a firm pressure throughout, the appearance of their oars in the water reminding the observer of the Harvard crew of 1885, but otherwise their work was far superior to that of Storrow's crew. The Harvard crew, in their body work, followed the principles taught by Bancroft, but did not attain the smoothness which Bancroft himself and his most skillful pupils acquired. In this respect they tried to follow the English system, and seemed to have also...
...their advice and assistance to aid the captain in his duties. With their help the captain could decide on the policy of the crew and the details of the stroke. With the captain and crew in thorough accord with its advisors, the task of developing the eight would be far easier, and when to this is added the stimulus which the increased interest of the college at large would impart to the crew, could they feel that it was in their hands and not in the hands of the graduates, the chance of success would be greatly increased. In selecting...