Word: perpendicular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cornell seems to have abandoned her old time stroke for a modified copy of the English one with a fairly long body swing. The slides are held until the body is slightly back of the perpendicular and then the stroke is finished with a powerful leg drive. The arms are but slightly broken at the finish and there is a tendency to drop out at the full reach. The blade work is excellent and the shell moves smoothly through the water...
Professor Moore gave his fifth lecture on the Fine Arts of the Middle Ages in the Fogg Museum last evening, showing views illustrating the Decadent Gothic style of architecture in France, and the Perpendicular style in England. Most of the views were from English churches, such as the cathedrals of Durham, Lincoln, Salisbury, Wells, Ely, Peterborough, Southwell, and the abbeys of Whitby and Westminster...
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Sargent's new game was played for the first time in the Gymnasium. The game has not yet been named; it is very much like basket-ball except that more men can play, and the opening through which the ball must be put is perpendicular instead of horizontal. This gives a chance for defensive work which basket-ball does not give...
...regard to the actual rowing itself, the Englishman leans further back, and in finishing his stroke, is quite out of a perpendicular: he also brings his hands up to his chest before finishing his stroke and shooting out again. With us, on the contrary, the man ends his stroke while sitting up almost straight, just a very little out of the perpendicular and with his hands several inches from his chest. No matter how rapidly the English crew is rowing, the stroke must always be pulled through in exactly the same way. In this then, that the English crews...
...general faults of the crew as a whole are "settling after coming to the perpendicular" and "driving on the legs at the catch." The time is fairly good. Following are the weights and most apparent faults of the individual...