Word: faster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this was in the half mile run. E. B. Hill '94, although heavily handicapped, won this event from scratch in the remarkable time of 1 min., 58 4-5 sec. This is the best time that has been made in the distance in the fall games. It is faster than the time in which the event was won at New York last spring, and is within 2 seconds of the Harvard record held, by W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84. Much is expected of Hill in the spring...
Since the class races the crew has not been rowed on record, but does not seem to be any faster now than at that time. Watriss has been very careful of the men, perhaps too much so. For the most part, the afternoons are now spent in rowing short distances, Watriss either directing them from a pair oar, or from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap...
...Tuesday the new launch, John Harvard, was used for the first time. The machinery is the same that was in the old launch, the hull only being new. She is painted white, is a little longer than the old one and is warranted to be faster...
...choir sang the anthems: "Thy sun shall no more go down, and" Omnes Amici Mei," by Palestrina. Mr. Merrill sang "But they are in peace," by Faster...
...Galanaugh, the Philadelphia boat builder, at the Newark regatta. He was so pleased with the new style of shell that he highly recommended it to the Cornell crew. They finally decided to interview the maker. Galanaugh felt so positive he could build a boat at least ten seconds faster than one constructed of either paper or cedar, that he agreed to build an eight oared shell at his own expense, on condition that if it does not fulfil his claims, the crew need not purchase...