Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will obviate many difficulties at present attending our religious observances. The plan ought to meet with the approval of every friend of the university. Each pastor will come to his work full of enthusiasm and his stay with the students will be long enough to allow him to reach some definite end in his work. The result of this recurring change will undoubtedly be in the highest degree beneficial to the general work. Let the rebuke of the ardent west against godless Harvard now be modified in tone. What if university prayer meetings are less attractive to the students than...
Richards, '87, does not get reach enough. He drops his head and shoulders on the full reach in his endeavor to get a longer one. After the stroke is finished he does not start on his recover quite soon enough, and in getting his oar away from his body he pushes his body back. He does not get his oar into the water as soon as he is on the full reach. When the crew spurts he does not swing back enough, but gets jerky...
Meikleham, '86, does not get reach enough, and does not keep his blade covered long enough. He does not feather long enough, and does not get his oar over on the catch as much as he ought...
Albert Stevens, '87, is a little slow; does not get reach enough; does not start on his recover at once after finishing his stroke; feathers too low and does not get his oar over enough on the catch. He should row with a straighter back...
Donnelly, S. of L., does not get enough reach; is bunched up too much when in position to take his stroke; does not swing back enough, and is nearly always a little late...