Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped that the Yale Bicycle club will accept the Harvard club's challenge to a team race next spring. Twice last year Yale was invited to arrange a race with Harvard, but each time refused "owing to the general lack of interest in bicycling at New Haven." Now that Yale has won the two-mile bicycle race at the Mott Haven games. the college ought to be more interested in this branch of athletics, and ought to be eager to meet Harvard. Yale can not refuse on the ground of any unsatisfactory conditions in the challenge since every circumstance-"course...
...detailed criticism of the Yale crew in Tuesday's Yale News closes with the following general comment on the candidates: "As a crew no two men row like, they show entire lack of the distinctive features of the stroke, a general tendency to swing away from oar on catch and toward oar on recovery, necessity for a brace up all around and stricter attention to business...
While there are several new men trying earnestly for the university crew, there are a few old rowing men in college who have not as yet gone into training, either from lack of interest or too much self-confidence. This is not as it should be, particularly the present year. The withdrawal from the football league last fall, and the recent action of the Athletic committee, although they have not directly affected boating, have yet so fixed the eyes of the country upon Harvard athletics as indirectly to put an added responsibility upon crew men. We must win this year...
...this month is the tank they are sure to have the faults of having a bad hang at full reach, a great splash at the catch, a great jerk at the finish, and a general feeling of helplessness. The faults of the crew at present are a lack of life, a want of stretcher work, and a hang at the full reach. To be sure the men are not trying to row hard but there is a very glaring want of any use of the stretcher. It is early in the year to talk of leg-work but some...
While we are on this matter we want to say just a word in regard to the management of the winter meetings. Last year they were hardly considered eminently successful. The cause of this lack of success lay in the small number of entries. This year the management has taken pains to publish the list of events fully three weeks earlier than last year in order that men may see what the contests are to be in, and may have enough time in which to prepare themselves. The men intending to enter will do well to consider that this year...