Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...victim of great Hertha's rage...
...previous winter meetings of the H. A. A. may well be rejoiced at the appearance of the new rules. But though the Executive Committee are to be commended for doing now what ought to have been done five years ago, it was, to say the least, a great mistake that the rules, announced a year ago, were not published until within a few days of the first meeting. For instance, owing to the lateness at which the rules appeared, a bar such as is requisite for carrying out fully the "Fence Rules" adopted could not be procured until a very...
...crew could be entered without doing this it might be worth while. Although Harvard and Yale send no crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat...
...College at large was aware how good the material of the Nine really is. Most of those men who have been nominally training have not so far taken a course calculated to raise the greatest hopes of their success, but we feel confident that they are capable of a great deal. What is needed is good faithful training on the part of the men, and constant attention from the captain in keeping them at work. During the vacation they will have the unusual advantage of practice with the Boston and other clubs, and if they make the most of such...
...heavy club swinging, and Mr. Howe followed with a marvellously agile performance, using much lighter clubs. In the second round the former executed several extremely difficult motions which tested his strength, and showed off his perfect condition and careful training. Then Mr. Howe gave a second display of a great variety of dexterous tricks, which, however, belonged properly to the province of juggling and sleight-of-hand, rather than to that of club swinging. It may be suggested to the Executive Committee that in the future it would be well to distinguish between these two exercises, which are as distinct...