Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...required to put the crew in good shape. The time of the whole crew is bad and the oars are allowed to sliver out at the finish, thus shortening the stroke at a vital point; No. 8 especially, does not pull his oar through, which is a bad fault in a stroke oar. No. 7 swings in and six meets; four and five have no snap and shoot slowly; five clips and four settles at the finish. No. 3 drops his head at the full reach, goes back too far, clips and does not get enough reach...
...into the water and that was sprung in the middle; but in the writer's opinion this disadvantage was insignificant to that of having to be coached the eight days preceding the race by a stranger. During these eight days the stroke was hastened considerably by the very worst fault a crew can fall into, namely, rushing forward on the full reach. Mr. Lattauer, not withstanding the above-mentioned fact, deserves on behalf of the crew and the class their full acknowledgements for his faithfulness as coach while the crew was practising on the Harlem...
...fault to find with him. On the contrary, the crew ought to blame itself and be blamed by the whole class for not having chosen a coach at least a month before the race. It is absolutely impossible for a coach to pick out the individual faults of eight men in eight days. While he attempts to do so, each man contracts new faults, the time becomes poor, the crew soon begins to feel from the motion of the boat that its rowing is ragged and by no means up to the mark, nervousness sets in, and the consequence...
...class for not having begun the canvass for subscriptions to the class fund. This letter seems to me in questionable taste for several reasons. In the first place, if the secretary received a salary any member of the class would have a right to find fault, but instead of this a secretary does an immense amount of work for the class, and gets no return. His office is no sinecure, and the class should meet him with cordial support instead of with unfounded criticisms. In the second place, if the class have no confidence that the man they have chosen...
...begin six new subjects each of the last three years of his course - and do nothing but begin them - and then be graduated, and that is bad, but not so bad as the twenty-four new subjects in the typical anti-elective college, and even that is the fault of the Harvard system and not of the elective system...