Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made recently in the make-up of the crew, but the effect of these has been to improve the eight considerably. The men are steadying their shell now fairly well, and are rowing a long stroke with a smooth recover If they get off well they should make a good race for at least part of the distance...
...crew back considerably. The crew is the lightest of the four, but seven men have rowed in races before and six sat in last year's Freshmen boat. The men reach out well on the catch and have a strong body swing. Their leg work, however, is not good and they are heavy and slow at the beginning of the recover. The order of the crew in the boat, their ages, weights and heights are as follows...
...Casey of the Riverside Boat Club. They row a stroke somewhat shorter than that which the other crews use, and the recover is very much faster. The crew as a whole is apt to hurry and fails to use the leg drive soon enough. The watermanship is very good and has improved much of late. This crew is the heaviest of the four and the men are unusually strong...
...will make definite arrangements to have the cheering led as it should be. Too often there has been need of cheering at a game and a crowd of men there ready and anxious to cheer, but with no one to lead. The first Brown game last year was a good example of this; although the game was unusually close and exciting, there was, until the last inning or two, no demonstration or cheering of any kind, except a little that was spontaneous; finally a graduate volunteered to lead the men and although it proved to be too late to pull...
Although this year's nine has been doing poorly of late, we have no doubt that it can win; and it now rests with the undergraduates to support their representatives in a good, hearty fashion and thus help them to take the needed brace...