Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four eights proceeded down the river to the railroad bridge at New London, a distance of eight miles, each crew taking the distance in two stretches at a high paddle. Coached by Haines, the Freshman and Combination boats returned to the boathouse in a single heat, again accelerating the rhythm as they neared headquarters. Whiteside's two crews stopped at the four-mile start on the way back, and the remaining distance was covered with the Jayvee boat pacing the University in a brief sprint...
That John Watts '28, veteran Harvard stroke, would again set the rhythm for a Harvard eight was learned last night when plans for a naval contest between Eli and Crimson alumni oarsmen wore disclosed in their primitive state...
...annual Blackbirds review with colored chorus girls, funnymen and blackouts, has evidently become very serious about the Negro's part in the art of the theatre. Rhapsody in Black spurns the traditional habiliments of a blackamoor review, presents instead "a symphony in blue notes and black rhythm." That is to say, the show is not very amusing. It is not boring either...
Columbia paddled in a chilly mist along the Harlem River to the starting line. Macrae Sykes was stroking. He was nervous in his freshman races last year but this year has shown a smooth rhythm, easy to pick up and follow. The third boat in the race was Pennsylvania, whose lightness Russell ("Rusty") Callow, once coach of great Washington crews, defended by saying: "I never cared much for very big oarsmen. This is the best material I've had at Penn." With twelve special buses trailing them along the bank the three sprinted away with Columbia in the lead...
...face has a blind dignity and pathos and the forms mount up in strange rhythm from the vast limbs set in a rough base. . . . The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner. In this work the sculptor has given us his conception of the primeval mother of the scientists to set beside the 'Eve' of the classics. There is surely room for it in the world...