Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made to medical science. Our knowledge of the circulation of the blood and many other of the foundation stones of medical learning are due to the practice of vivisection. It is humanitarian, for by the sacrifice of the lower animals almost without pain the greatest benefits for the human race are obtained...
...almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which rowed in the 1873 college regatta, Yale was probably physically weaker than any other. Notwithstanding that fact, however, we easily won the race with an average of 32 to the minute, while the others...
...already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were in 1883, and therefore they need but little instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult, for they...
...secret of success was entirely due to the concentration of the combined power of the men on each stroke, the men throughout the race rowing back and forth mechanically and deliberately as one body. There was no undue haste, as had been the case in previous races. The six men were as though molded into one, operating like the works of a well-regulated clock, in perfect unison and harmony. The result was a conservation of force, previously unknown in a boat. The test was a fair one in every respect. With a crew physically inferior to that...
From a comparison of the crews we get the following result: At present '87 is the heaviest crew, '86 the most skillful, '85 the strongest, and '84 rows the fastest for a short distance. The result of the race will show whether a professional, or the "Harvard" stroke is better for an eight-oared crew in a two-mile race...