Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stroke has a weak finish, and does not use his legs hard enough. He starts forward quickly on the recover, being the only man in the boat who does so. No. 7 is slow in starting forward, and does not use his shoulders well, fails to row them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders...
...most conspicuous faults of the crew as a whole, are that they do not finish hard enough, and that they are slow in starting forward. With the exception of stroke, there is not a man in the boat who starts forward quickly enough...
...Appeal after appeal has been made, with only partial success. We do not expect to arouse Harvard to its center on the question of a life university reading-room similar to the one at Yale, but we do desire to stir only a few so that they will come forward and help the present reading-room. Only twenty subscriptions are needed to make the society good for its present debts. Twenty-five men are wanted to join the association, contribute, each one his dollar, and thus maintain a useful institution in our midst. An admirable collection of papers...
...order to be successful. Riding against time, and riding a winning race against six or eight men, are two different things. There are several men now in college who could do well in bicycling racing if they should try. It is barely possible that unless some new men come forward, Harvard will have no representative in this event at Mott Haven...
However, all great reforms are directly attended with immediate disadvantages for some past society and the present generation of Harvard men must be contented with their unfair opportunities and look forward with satisfaction to the higher development of the coming generation. Harvard's radical move must gradually elevate the schools, but only very gradually can this be done, for, according to Mill "reform even of governments and churches is not so slow as that of schools." - The only means to this end is to increase the difficulties for admission from year to year, and let us hope that President Eliot...