Word: hang
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Finally, avoid unnecessary promenading. Limit yourselves to your beats as we are limited to our seats, and depend more on vigilance of eye than on pedestrian awfulness. Do not continually pass between us and the windows; and please, please, sweet proctors, hang over our shoulders as little as possible. Don't stand, like the Devil, behind our backs, but pose in the foreground that we may be constantly encouraged by your inspiring presence...
...which men enter the dressing rooms. Every time a man goes out or comes in, (and they average two a minute,) that wretched door fans a great cold drought of air down my spine and gets my teeth chattering as if I had the ague. Could not the authorities hang a thick curtain over the end of the little passage-way in front of the door so as to break this draught? It might impede hasty ingress and exit, but it would be a wise precaution against severe colds. I think these changes would be appreciated by others besides...
...added. In brief, the stroke used is this: smoothness throughout the stroke is aimed at; the catch is made without a jerk, and is made with just that force which can be carried through to the finish; the body is kept in motion all the time, without a hang at either end; the legs are used hard and the hands are drawn in with life at the finish; the slide and back are used at the same time; the blade is well covered at the moment of the catch; the feather is nearly flat; above all, there ought...
There is little to criticize in the form in which our crew is rowing at present. As a rule there is a good deal of life in the boat; there is little or no hang at either end of the stroke; and improvement has been made in keeping the pressure on all through the stroke, so that there is little let up. All the men have more or less serious individual faults. Bow: rowed in '87 freshman crew; chief fault is tendency to raise his hand at the finish instead of drawing them in straight; this makes him finish rather...
...when they get back they jerk in their hands badly instead of flnishing smoothly. This failure to row smoothly applies all through the stroke and, to a greater or less extent, throughout the boat. The great improvement, however, has been in overcoming to a great extent the bad hang which the crew had on both the catch and the finish. This change is most encouraging. The men still fail to get their weight on the stretchers, and after rowing well for a short distance they let up too much. This last fault is being gradually overcome. Most...