Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows...
...have good coaching. Whether they win or not, no one can say that there has been a Harvard crew for years that has not rowed handsomely. I saw this year's Harvard eight on Charles river one day last week. They were returning from a long and arduous practice pull, and, although they were very tired, they were swinging along in that steamboat style which always makes Harvard so effective on race day. The men seem to get into the swing about as soon as they get positions in the boat. The men are in liberal training. They have...
...Goes back too far. Must pull his oar in more smoothly, and not jerk at the finish. Should be careful to use his outside hand. Apt to hang and catch behind stroke...
...stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other the rope was passed over an upper branch of a tree, or through a hole in a high post, and the competitors took hold of the rope, with their backs to the tree, and tried to pull up the opposite side...
Your contributor says that different teams have represented us in different contests. They may have had a change in number 3 or 2, but they have been virtually the same, and the '88 man in question has pulled on them all. As to his argument concerning the right of the '87 men to pull in the class boat this year, it may be said that they are no longer 'Varsity men, and hence do not come under the rule respecting the latter. In the case of '88's coxswain, I do not get the drift of his very lucid argument...