Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...studies such as mathematics and natural history on a face may be observed. If is a curious fact that a composite photograph is generally more beautiful than any one of the component pictures. Dr. Bowditch suggested that another valuable application of the art would be for every photographer to keep on hand negatives of selected persons, so that a man when having his picture taken could order a slight resem balance of Daniel Webster or George Washington...
...forming an opinion of the crew. He says in brief that the watermanship is good and in advance of former years, but the stroke is very short and far from the long sweeping swing that has brought victory to Yale for the past few years. The men do not keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal to success, of coming up hard at the end of the stroke, the result being that the boat stops between strokes, instead of gliding along evenly and smoothly as it should. Captain Cook not will...
...stroke, the pins are placed in front of the end of the slide. It should be understood that this stroke, properly rowed, is devoid of all jerking movements. Although the oar is actually "yanked" into the body, in order to toss the water from the blade and keep the boat jumping between the strokes, all jerking appearance is avoided by the simultaneous heave of the shoulders at the end of the stroke. Indeed, the dominent virtue of this system of rowing is its smoothness and freedom from all apparent effort. Even in the excitement of a race, when...
Last Friday when the 'varsity crew rowed two or three times beside the freshman, they went by so last that it was hard to believe that the latter moved at all. An ordinary freshman crew ought to keep up with the 'varsity for half a mile without any trouble when both are going easily. Judging from this, '92 is some eight lengths to the half-mile slower than the average freshman crew...
COMMITTEEENGLISH B.- Mr. Wendell will be unable to keep office hours on Saturday, March 30th. He will be at 18 Grays' today, from 2 till...