Word: pull
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harry, don't bubble over so; you 'd better go down to the Gymnasium and cool off. I think Harvard will pull through pretty well...
BETWEEN twenty and thirty Freshmen have come forward as candidates for their class crew, and it is probable that before spring six excellent men will be found among this number. The candidates run a half-mile three times a week, and pull a hundred strokes at the weights; both the running distance and the number of strokes will soon be increased, The class has subscribed about $400 to meet the expenses of their crew, and as the most rigid economy is necessary in spending this money, it would be well for the treasurer of the class boat-club to publish...
...October Mr. William Blakie wrote a letter to the New York Tribune reviewing the crews of the late regatta and examining their future prospects. Under the impression that we have three men of the last crew who will pull next summer, he says that "instead of again putting off most of the coaching also till the winter is over, it ought to be done now. With three new men as strong and enduring as the present three, with adequate coaching, and two or three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this...
...crew is composed of good material, but needs more polish. The stroke waits a little at the beginning of the recover, - a very bad fault, - and there are many other failings among the crew. The swing together is not so perfect as it might be. No. 3 does not pull his stroke through, and wants to get more back into it. However, with some intelligent person to coach them, we need not fear their making a bad record at Saratoga...
Several of the crew on that day were extremely worn by their late exertions on the river, and were indisposed for rowing. The usual noon pull had been dispensed with, and in the evening Hooker, acting as coxswain, coached Sherman and Cameron in the Sophomore pair-oar. They pulled up stream as far as the toll-bridge on Morgan Street, where, about six o'clock, the swell of a tug-boat, passing at some distance from them, caused the water to wash over the bow of the boat, and gradually filled it through holes in the canvas. The oarsmen, having...