Word: hards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other crews. They have, however, when doing their best work an excellent beat in the stroke, and most of the men show excellent watermanship, getting their oars in neatly and feathering cleanly together. The greatest faults of the crew at present are lack of snap, and shortness when rowing hard...
...present rowing with more dash and life than any other eight on the river. Higginson sets an excellent stroke and his crew back him up well. Their boat is still a bit unsteady and although the oars go in sharply it is with a smash rather than a clean hard nip. The crew was set back yesterday when it was discovered that Biddle would be unable to row on account of college work. Glidden, who was tried at 3 again on Monday, was shifted yesterday to 7 in Biddle's place and Saltonstall was put in at 3. Pierce...
...however, the crews will row as they are at present made up. Ninety-nine will go to the training table at Lappen's on Friday. The other crews will go before Monday. This means that the regular work of training will begin and the daily work becomes a hard drill until the day of the race...
Taken as a whole it seems better calculated to pick the best men with fairness and accuracy than the old method. Under the system which has heretofore been the general rule, it is extremely hard for the judges to select the best four out of a large number of five minute speakers. Then again a five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater...
...methods of the Architectural department is impressive of the fact that in another instance lack of funds is placing a check on a school which might be recognized among the important institutions of architectural training. The growth of the Department is a proof of its efficiency, and it is hard to think that without endowment this will soon reach the limit of the present accommodation...