Word: forward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June 16.--All three crews went out this afternoon immediately after the Yale practice. Under favorable conditions the University crew distanced the Freshmen by six lengths in the two miles. The Freshman boat did not travel well. The men splashed badly and rushed forward, thereby making it impossible to pull up the stroke...
...bitter and harsh. There are the ways of social ambition, of hypocrisy, of indecision. And, finally, there is the way of faith and of duty, the goal of which is harmony with the eternal things, and in which men, though they stumble often and sometimes fall, are gong forward--to something better than themselves...
...While with the freshmen, the University crew, rowing about 30 strokes to the minute, showed a tendency to shorten the stroke, and many individual faults were emphasized. For the other two miles the men were a little more settled and rowed in somewhat better form, but they still rushed forward badly. The four-oared rowed this afternoon with Ober at bow and Webster at 2. The new Davy shell was used for the first time on the Thames today and caused considerable unsteadiness...
...miles in long stretches keeping the stroke at about thirty. At this stroke, the shell stopped noticeably between strokes and the men were unable either to begin the recovery as rapidly or finish it as slowly, as is desired. These faults were due to the bow men, who rushed forward ahead of the others. In the afternoon, while paddling down to the start, the crew succeeded in keeping the recovery slow, and spaced about eight feet. Notwithstanding this improvement the boat was rather unsteady and the men kept poor time. During the first three miles of the time row which...
...consequence of the inability of the men to slide forward gently when rowing at a stroke above 28, the boat stopped between strokes almost as badly as in the morning and usually spaced less than four feet...