Word: low
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work last fall consisted of very slow paddling, and the stroke was kept low with the aim of teaching the crew to row smoothly. Considerable time was devoted to trying out strokes in all three crews on the squad. In the first crew Bacon was tried for the first month, and then Sargent was put in. At the end of the fall rowing a race was held over the four mile course in order to try out the men; and the rowing of the University crew in that race was fairly smooth. This spring six men picked from the dormitory...
...high stroke. On the first sprint the stroke was rapidly put up to 33 to the minute, and in the stretch extending from below the Stillman Infirmary to the boathouse it was raised to 36. The crew showed even better form with a high stroke than with a low, although it tended naturally to clip the stroke a little at the finish...
...reason of the pop-night's unqualified success was probably due to the informality and sociability of the affair, as well as to the reasonableness of the admission price. Many men preferred to attend an informal class entertainment in Cambridge at a low price rather than to pay twice as much and attend a more or less formal dinner in Boston...
...performance, but is persuaded to be quiet. Now Overdo appears and discloses his identity, thinking he has discovered the perpetrators of all the crimes at the fair, but finds himself mistaken. Trouble-all, a mad man, Mooncalf, a tapster, and Haggise and Bristle, two drunken watchmen, furnish the low comedy parts...
...substantial margin, and deserves all support for the month of march, if the trial is to be a fair one. There are many men, not now enrolled as members, to whom a transient membership should be a great convenience, and many more who will be attracted by the low cost of regular board now assured. To those who have studied the scheme carefully, its rational provisions for all classes of members leave no doubt of its deserved success...