Word: finish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stroke. Settles badly at both full reach and finish. Should swing over the keel. Is slow in getting forward on the recover. Should get his oar on the full reach. Bends his arms too soon...
...Settles at the finish. Gets an extra body reach after he has come down with his slide. Feathers under water and rows...
...forensic tortures - are carefully grouped - as usual - on the last days of the college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...
...take seats in the 'Varsity crew and it is rather doubtful, if, in their present condition, they do any better or even as well as they did last year. The junior and senior classes will each enter strong crews and between them the race for leadership at the finish will be well contested...
...orchestra should have time to give more strict attention to the able directing of Mr. Daniels - who as Mr. Damrosch confidentially remarked, was the only man that he considered his superior as an orchestral director. As Mr. Damrosch begged so earnestly to be granted a short time to finish up his morning rehearsal, the concession was made, and in the interim, the Corps de Ballet took lessons from their sister artistes who were practicing on the larger stage...