Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Changes back and forth are still being made in the Sophomore crew, and the first boat has not been at all definitely picked. The crew has shown little progress, and the rowing is still rough. The boat is unsteady, and there are still many rudimentary faults which the men do not seem to correct...
...work for the University crew this week has consisted mainly of short stretches at a higher stroke in preparation for the Annapolis race. Wednesday was devoted to practicing racing starts; and on Thursday the first and second crews had a two-mile race. The water was so rough, however, that satisfactory work was almost impossible. A stroke of 30 was maintained for most of the distance, but the men were still inclined to rush the slides and cut the finish; and when the stroke was raised there was a pronounced tendency to kick the slides away and shorten the stroke...
With only eight days of actual practice on the Charles left before the Annapolis race, the University eight was put through a short but hard drill yesterday afternoon. The river was very rough, and the wind dead ahead upstream, but Coach Wray demanded a high stroke. On the first sprint the stroke was rapidly put up to 33 to the minute, and in the stretch extending from below the Stillman Infirmary to the boathouse it was raised to 36. The crew showed even better form with a high stroke than with a low, although it tended naturally to clip...
...Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly, until the work is now so far advanced that in a few weeks the telescope will...
...week's rowing ended yesterday with eleven crews on the river, four from the University squad and seven from the Freshman. The water was rough and choppy, and good feathering was well nigh impossible. For the first time this year the John Harvard was put in commisison, from the bow of which Conch Stevenson was able to watch the rowing of the Freshmen...