Word: rate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...already over-crowded with baseballs, and the other, devoted to football, baseball, and track cups has no more space than can be devoted to a very limited future. The writer will also see that if more space is to be gained for banners and cases, some, at any rate, of the pictures of the teams on the walls must be removed...
...sounds feasible and should succeed if the committee accept their small responsibility with eagerness to carry it out. Eventually, it might well develop into a system of Senior Advisers for Freshmen, similar in a way to the Faculty Advisers and designed to supplement their efforts. It is at any rate well worth trial...
...fullback as for end, there is more material than for the other positions. Blumer and Waterbury, the University substitutes, White and Gray, the second team's backs, and Cutler and Minot of the Freshman eleven are all first-rate players. W.H. Brown, a former Exeter player, who was ineligible to play last fall, is a heavy and powerful fullback. Doubtless some of these men will be transferred to halfback, for which position the only regular candidates seem to be Gilbert and Graydon of last year's squad...
...four-mile course. After taking the shell down stream to the railroad bridge, the men climbed into their seats from the John Harvard and after one short stretch to limber up, turned and rowed to the line. Without any racing start the shell was carried up stream at the rate of 26 strokes to the minute. This gait was held till the crew reached the three-mile flag; there the stroke was raised to 30, and, after passing through the swell from a steamer, the "Chelsea," the crew gradually quickened their stroke. In the last half-mile they rowed...
...afternoon the work was a little longer. The University eight appeared on the river at 6 o'clock and went down to the Navy Yard and back in short stretches, a distance of about four miles. The rate of stroke was kept as low as 26 all the way, and considerable attention was paid to blade work in the rough water. The shell spaced well and as a whole the crew rowed in good form...