Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stroke starts forward too slowly, and hangs slightly on the full reach. When he starts to come back he does not get a push from the stretcher soon enough. He draws his oar up on the last part of the finish. No. 7 is rather stiff and disconnected in his motions. He is slow in starting forward, and in coming back lets his slide get ahead of his shoulders. He does not draw his hands way in to his body. No. 6 does not get any reach with his body, and is slow in starting forward. He swings back...
Stroke does not get his shoulders on well and hurries his recover. He swings back too far and is slow in starting forward. No. 7 swings back too far, and gets a weak finish. His slide gets ahead of his shoulders. No. 6 does not get his shoulders on at all. He overreaches and hangs on the full reach. He gets a weak finish and is slow in starting out. No. 5 does not get his shoulders on, and fails to keep time. He overreaches and does not hold his head up. When he starts to come back he wobbles...
...record of the coming season is the enthusiasm of the captain. Poor captaining has cost us many a game in the past, but of late a better era of things seems to have come in. New methods have taken the place of those found inadequate. New men have come forward to put them into practice. This year will witness the unfurling of the pennant won in '85, and, unless we are far too sanguine in our forecast, it will also witness the winning of the same pennant...
Stroke swings back too far. On the full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish...
...cent. At Harvard they have increased from 100 to 184, which nearly doubles Yale's percentage. Yale claims to have erected in fifteen years buildings costing $700,000. Harvard, between 1869 and 1881, used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni that comes, forward to ease the pecuniary path of their alma mater. But the graduates have never been asked to give: they are more often treated as interlopers in college affairs than...