Word: harding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strength well on the beginning, though at the end there is a tendency to settle. The bow is apt to roll, but with this exception the crew row in excellent form. Weld should perhaps be mentioned next to Holworthy, although there is no doubt that Matthews will press her hard for the second place. Weld rows a more finished stroke than Matthews, but the crew appears to lack material. Matthews has more strength than form, the boat rolls, and the men do not keep time as a six-oar crew should. No. 5 dips his oar too deep...
...instead of friendly contests and pleasant visits between colleges, we are to have all the hard work of practice for no other purpose than to play against men who make base-ball a means of support, I am afraid that the old exciting times of base-ball are over...
...decision has been reached, and that he is to occupy that position permanently. If this is not the case, we beg to suggest that too much valuable time is taken in making the choice. Two months before the regatta is late enough to find our crew settled upon and hard at work, and where the strokeship lies between three or four men, it is not supremely difficult to make a choice. We are sorry to miss Mr. Taylor on the crew. As an oar, he is undoubtedly faulty, but his strength and endurance will be a bad loss...
...rests with each captain to pull the stroke that pleases him best, and the result of the races will judge it. Of the Matthews Six it is difficult to say much. They are more irregular than the other crews; but they look remarkably strong and capable of quantities of hard work. They are, by all odds, the heaviest crew. If the next three weeks' work brings them together, we venture to predict for them a front place in the race. The Weld crew are pulling the most finished stroke of any; how effective it is we cannot say, but their...
German 4 is intended only for persons fond of the language. Loafers will find it hard. Course 3 will be much the same, though not so far advanced. Marks will be given on both recitations and examinations...