Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-After long and patient walling on the part of the college, the Index is at last out, but as we look over its pages and scent the mass of dry facts laid before us, we are disposed to ask with Arthur in the play, "cui Bono? It is not that the Index is not useful and even indispensable as far as it goes, but that it does not go far enough. A stranger who had been looking over the publication of a like nature which other colleges have, and marked their wealth of illustration and the variety...
...following is an attempt at a description of the stroke at present rowed by Harvard crews. It is limited to that part of the stroke which is taught in the gymnasium. If any assistance is thereby rendered the crews, it will be followed in spring by directions for shell rowing and for watermans...
...graduated with the class 1838. He at once entered the Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated four years later, the head scholar of his class. This rank entitled him to a position in the Engineer Corps of the army with which he served for seven years, part of the time as assistant professor at the academy. In 1849 he left the army to accept the position of professor of engineering in the then newly established Lawrence Scientific School. His work here was uninterrupted in its usefulness until the breaking out of the Civil war. Then remembering...
...lighted rowing room to see the crews working away on the "hydraulics." Of course, when the men get upon the water, anyone may watch their practice, but at this time the work done in the crew room is shrouded, as it were, in mystery, so far as the greater part of the students are concerned...
...distinguished by any particular style of rowing. Each crew usually has a great many faults which are common to all beginners. If a general criticism were to be passed upon the candidates of the senior crew, it would doubtless be that the arms and shoulders are made to do part of the work of the back...