Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Varsity race, either in this country or in England. A certain amount of exhaustion is a necessary result of any severe physical contest where the participants are using their nervous and muscular energy to the highest degree. It takes some little time to regain the energy thus expended;--in rowing, perhaps longer than in most other sports--but if the recovery is complete, and I say again there is nothing to show that it is not, is any harm done? Are we to give up contests involving endurance because a man requires a little time to recover from them...
Shortly after this occasion, on July 2, 1771, George Washington, who yet remains incomparably our greatest figure, rode up through Tory Row--now Brattle street--looking, said President Quincy, like a member of the General Court from the rural districts of Massachusetts. He was enthusiastically received by the whole College, and the students gave up all their rooms to the soldiers. On the next day, over on the Common, Washington formally took command of the troops. It was upon him that the College, in 1776, conferred its first degree of L.L.D...
...know, an unfortunate time to present this suggestion because, it is unhappily the fact, that in the last two races Harvard has been beaten by Yale after the three mile mark was passed, and therefore it can, and will be said that Harvard wishes to row three miles, because she cannot win at four. This is a discussion into which I will not go at present. I offer this suggestion now, because I believe that all the boys (men if you prefer so to call them) not only of Harvard, but also of Yale, who take part in these contests...
...believe that three miles is less exhausting than four. That it is less exhausting because it takes five minutes less time. It is a well known fact that while a first-class man can row himself absolutely out at the finish of a short race, as at Henley 1 3-8 miles, or the National, 1 1-2 miles, he soon recovers, and is able to take part with effectiveness in two, and in some cases three, races in the same day, and to repeat the process the day following. I have yet to see or hear...
...better one. It is unreasonable to expect to win always, but it is not unreasonable to expect that the University crew shall be a good one always. The present system certainly fills the requirements as nothing else ever did, for it allows a great many men to row who never used to have a chance, but who not infrequently prove to be good,--to row and to be sure of getting instruction. And what is more, the system can always accommodate more. The one thing that is necessary for both undergraduates and graduates to remember is that it needs...