Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman crew has just received its new eight-oared shell from Waters. The boat is on nearly the same lines as the shells now rowed by '87 and '88, with the single exception of being a little fuller forward...
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...
...MOTT HAVEN" CUP.As has been the custom at the Third Winter Meeting during the last seven years, the president of the Athletic Association brought forward the "Mott Haven" cup, and in an appropriate speech presented it to the view of the audience, explaining how the name "Mott Haven" came to be applied to it, and giving the names and records of those to whom Harvard is indebted for its possession at the present time. Those who won first prize at the Polo Grounds last May were the tug-of-war team, composed of Easton, L. S. (anchor), Chase, '88, Pendon...
...crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form of athletics, he is pushed forward and aided for the good of the reputation of the whole college. As far as athletics are concerned, he no longer belongs to any particular class, but the college...
...then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which must be terribly heavy, supported by the Fuchs, or junior freshman of the Verbindung, and surrounded by his comrades and admirers. Meanwhile the same elaborate preparations have been going on at the other end of the ground...