Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite fashionable for Harvard men to be somewhat boastful of the various advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record...
...enthusiasm in their work or in the result of the race. A man always prizes that the most for which he has worked the hardest. The indifference of the crews in last year's races is not therefore to be wondered at, and it is the experience of past years that hard work on the part of the crews makes a race much more interesting to those who pull as well as to those who see it. Holyoke, though not always having the best men, has been much the most successful of the clubs, and the secret of its success...
DURING the past two weeks the candidates for the Crew have been steadily at work, pulling on the average seven hundred and fifty strokes and running two miles daily. Simmons, '80, and Stow, '80, are now trying, making the number of candidates fourteen...
...time has been rather poor during the past week. The vigor of the catch has fallen off, and the men have not improved on the recover as fast as desirable. The captain, who has been coaching most of the time since the holidays, last week took stroke's lever, - Schwartz going to 6, and LeMoyne, '78, to 4. Bancroft has an inclination to bucket, to screw at the finish, and does not always get his hands out properly. Brigham and LeMoyne, '78, have both improved on the use of their slides. Brigham does not set his shoulders firmly...
Conlan's inexperience places him, when compared with the rest of the men, at a disadvantage. He is a powerful man, but as yet awkward and stiff. Within the past three weeks, however, he has made decided improvement. Jacobs is doing well at 7, but fails to use his arms properly. He drops his hands before taking hold, does not pull them in high enough, and has, like Brigham, a habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish...