Word: harding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place are left to our decision, as before. Last year our crew were able to do better in their race with Yale from having previously rowed with Columbia. Moreover, to pull in a single race is a small object for men to look forward to during a year's hard training; and so the more races a crew can row, the more pleasure there is for them individually. Here, then, are the two things which make a race with Columbia desirable, - improvement of our chances with Yale and more fun for the crew. Harvard withdrew from the Association, and entered...
...manner of spending the summer vacation. Once more, as usual, the gawky Freshman and the self-important Senior are seen in our midst. There are probably, as there always have been, and will be, the usual number who come back with the purpose to stand high, work hard, and get all the possible good from the College; others who are simply content to get through, with the fraction of a per cent to spare; others, again, who have no aim at all, judging the future by the past. During the next year, it is safe to say, the usual number...
...prestige of former successes to win future victories; and it is our further good fortune that six old men will sit in the next year's boat, and that seven veterans will guard the base-ball laurels twice won from Yale. The vacant places will indeed be hard to fill, but there is a host of material to pick from; and the impulse which our victories will give to athletics ought to enable Harvard to send out even a stronger crew and nine than any she has sent out for years...
...rather taken, for I believe they are not yet paid for), and the club system inaugurated. The club members had to pay, in addition to their subscriptions to the crew, a good deal of money for the privilege of rowing in very poorly kept boats; and in these hard times few could afford to join. Now, what all would like is, of course, some plan by which they could get an adequate return for what they pay for boating...
...reached that same half-length of clear water was still between the two boats. Now in the last mile Yale commenced a desperate struggle for the lead. They spurted again and again; but the oft-mentioned "beef" in the Harvard boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work for the men; and the spray flew from the oars of both crews. Still those broad backs pound d steadily and viciously away...