Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than the one of last year, but rows in far better form and is undoubtedly much faster, at least for a short distance. The freshmen are a light, quick set of men, but do not row in good form, and one wonders that they get over the water as fast as they do. Both crews seem determined to make a good record...
...however, so well supported by number seven that the bad effects of these faults are reduced to a minimum. Number one has not yet fallen into perfect time with the rest. However, the coach of the crew, Col. Bancroft, assures us that the crew is rowing as fast as last year's crew did at the time of their departure for New London...
...drills. Adjoining this room is a smaller, 27x12, which is filled with special apparatus, such as rowing machines, health-lifts, etc. Around the main hall, supported on iron columns, runs the track, twenty-five laps of which make a mile, and the corners can be raised or lowered for fast or slow running, as desired. Under the track, as in the Harvard gymnasium, the greater part of the apparatus will be placed, costing in all about...
...sale-keel sloop; 25 feet. Fast and seaworthy, and well fitted out for cruising. Apply at 44 Grays...
Reports have gotten around that our crew has been rowing in very fast time. From one college paper they pass to another, until by continued reiteration they gain weight and are believed even by some Yale men themselves. To some extent this was the case last year, and many were heard to say after the race why, I thought they had made such good time in practice. Why had they thought so? simply from believing rumors which start originally from no one (but the originator) knows where. The fact was that the crew had never done anything in practice that...