Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, New London, Conn., June 9, 1912.-All the crews were given light work yesterday morning, paddling slowly to the Navy Yard and back. The University crew showed marked improvement in rhythm as Coach Wray took particular care to make the men follow the stroke exactly, with the result that good proportions were secured. The boat also ran out well between the strokes...
Lothrop in the Freshman boat, had good rhythm and plenty of snap to his stroke, and the crew, spacing out well, had little difficulty in increasing its lead to six lengths over the last three-quarters mile of the course. The Sophomores and Seniors continued to row evenly together up to within 100 yards of the finish. Both had rowed good races but the Seniors had no strength left for a final spurt, while the Sophomores, who were still strong, won by a length in the final stretch...
...very satisfactory this spring, especially in the last few days. In the first of a couple of spurts with the University crew yesterday, the second was easily out-distanced; but in the second, the University crew had difficulty in keeping ahead of them. Eager at stroke has a good rhythm and is capable of driving the crew hard in a race...
...around exercise. This is accomplished in a novel and efficient manner. Five groups of floor exercises are held, consisting of either dumb-bell or wand drills. Between these groups Mr. Schrader inserts a form of dancing, thus combining a training in the finer senses of co-ordination and rhythm with regular exercise. After the floor exercises are completed, eight or nine folk dances modified for couples, are practiced...
...book might be "English 47-ized" to great advantage. The first and third acts are decidedly weak, even for comic opera, and the situation in Act II when Felix is surrounded by wives and applicants for position is rather ineffective. The music, decidedly interesting in places, lacks the rhythm is essential to popularity. But possibly this is a virtue not a vice...