Word: faster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best class crew on the river today. Davis, 93, is coaching. It rows a faster stroke, and is more advanced. Order: Stroke, Burgess; 7, Miller; 6, Earle; 5, Pike; 4, Keyes; 3, Ellsworth; 2, Bisbee; bow, Brewer...
...Hare and Hounds Run yesterday afternoon was especially successful. The hares Carr, M. S. and A. Blake, '93 started at 4.02, and set a faster pace and ran a longer distance than the hounds expected. The hounds, thirty-five in number started seven and a half minutes later. The hounds easily followed the scent the whole distance up Mr. Auburn St. nearly to the cemetery, thence to Spy Pond by way of Fresh Pond. Crossing North Avenue the hounds continued nearly to Medford, and returned by way of Porter's Station where the break took place. Fenton '95 the first...
President Elliot considers the changes entirely advisable. He thinks that routine work is too characteristic of the present grammar-school system due to the prescribed courses almost entirely, rather than to any fault of the teachers. The prescriptions of the course prevent a bright boy from advancing faster than any other. He may of course attain a higher rank but he must stay in the same division with the dull boy. In consequence under this compulsory system the dull boy lowers the age of matriculation of the whole class. These new changes will reward the work of all with...
...class races. The catch is hard but it is not carried through with any effect. The watermanship is very poor. A quicker catch with a proper handling of the oars and a steady pressure from the stretchers to the end of the stroke will soon make the boat go faster...
...ride so that the race was between four men, T. Barron '91, O. B. Hawes '93, F. S. Pratt '94 and G. F. Taylor '94. The first quarter was done in 43 seconds when Taylor took the lead and set the pace, making each successive lap faster than the one before it. On the turn of the last lap Pratt, by a marvellous spurt, got the lead which he held to the finish, closely pressed by Hawes and Taylor in the order given. with Barron last. All the men rode within a second of the winner, and therefore broke...