Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first crew are generally not deliberate enough to do what they have in mind. The work is rough, the time is poor. They ought to learn that they must be exactly together in catching the water and in getting the hands away. Stroke is too short; 7 rows well; 6 is too slow; 5 is unsteady and pulls his arms in too hard; 4 rows poorly; 3 needs a little more snap in the general rowing; 2 is too new at the work to criticize; bow is too short and very apt to get the stroke reversed...
...Walhalla" is a warlike lyric of the old Norse mythological days. The poem mirrors well the rough poetry and god-strength of the life depicted. "Age and Youth" by J. T. Stickney is, curiously enough, a poetical expression of certain ideas which Charles Dudley Warner gave vent to in the last Harper's. The poem - for it is a poem, rather than mere verse - shows promise...
...commencement parts which was published in Saturday's CRIMSON and additions to which are printed this moning, it has been difficult to draw any exact conclusions as to the character of those men who have taken the highest rank in their class. In order, however, to ascertain in a rough way what kind of men it was who stood so high, the following table has been prepared. The table is necessarily very incomplete, but it will help to answer the question...
...dormitory nearly completed at Yale is 160 feet long and 46 feet wide. It is four stories high with a steep gable roof with dormer windows. It is built of rough-faced Longmeadow sand-stone and its general appearance is very much like Durfee Hall. Three entrances open on the campus and 26 double rooms and 22 single rooms are to be the accommodations. It will cost about...
...Trainer Mac-Master, important improvements are now being made at the Princeton cage preparatory to the opening of the base ball and track athletic seasons The ground work of the cage is being completely overhauled. The floor has been dug up to the depth of four inches, the rough materials will be taken out, and sifted loam will be put in instead. This will make the surface more suitable for the needs of the base ball men and sprinters. The track will be relaid with loam, with a top dressing of finely sifted ashes...