Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-We take great pleasure in sending you this extract from a letter written by Ex-President Hill, of Harvard College, concerning the question of voluntary prayers, a letter called forth by the present movement in their favor. The letter was forwarded with a note from Mr. Hill, giving permission to publish...
...carriage of the body and the arms, very few directions suffice; but it often takes months to develop the muscles necessary for a proper execution of the directions. The body should swing forward and back with a hip, and not a back movement. Eight years ago Harvard crews used to row with a bent back. In considering the advisability of a change during the captaincy of our late coach, it was argued that a straight back, and an active chest allowed free and easier breathing, an important consideration in a race of from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Further...
When the body is bent forward, and the arms are extended to their "full reach," the shoulders should always be kept down and back, for a shoulder movement is jerky, as well as extremely tiresome. It is unnecessary work which often severely taxes an oarsman's strength. Meanwhile the arms are kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they...
...with individuals); the body should always swing directly over the keel of the boat, never swerving to either side. As all of the crews are at present on sliding seats, no directions for the use of the slide have been given. They are simple, and comprise only an additional movement. This movement is easily acquired, providing the above rules are carefully followed...
...spring of 1880 a movement was started by the junior class at Yale, which led to the appointment of the "Advisory Committee on Athletics," composed of four graduates. During the following year $5,000 were collected, and twenty-nine acres of land purchased by this committee. In 1882 the committee was merged into "The Yale Field Corporation," which was formed to manage the athletic grounds in question. On the 1st of June, 1884, the field purchased was thrown open. During the fall it was used for football and lacrosse. The field lies on the south side of Derby Avenue...