Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year, contrary to previous years, voluntary rowing will continue during mid-year examinations. Coach Haines will be at the hothouse as usual every afternoon. This rowing is in no way compulsory and should be used only as a means of exercise. Regular rowing will not begin until a week after the end of the mid-year period, Monday, February 19. During the week after mid-years all candidates will be expected to row at least three times so as to be prepared to begin serious work on the very first day of the regular season...
...strain on the physique of the men, every rowing coach knows that it is the number of strokes rowed to the minute rather than the distance covered that wearies the oarsman. This is occasioned by the fact that rowing is a form of exercise which forces the athlete to take a breath every time he pulls a stroke. The normal respiration of a man is about 17 breaths a minute. Now if the rate of stroke is, say 34 strokes to the minute, it means that the oarsman is breathing twice as fast as the naturally would. Increase the rate...
...None of the Eastern rowing colleges, with the exception of Cornell, have a satisfactory four mile course at home, and the result has been the establishment of elaborate training quarters away from the atmosphere and routine of university life, where rowing is no longer a recreation for men engaged in college work, but where for nearly a month every year they live to row, supported by gate receipts from commercialized athletics, or by the generosity of opulent patrons. The size of the rowing budget is thus enormously and unnecessarily increased, and rowing itself suffers from being considered a drain...
...fall rowing season which has just ended has been one of the most successful ever held both from the standpoint of interest shown by the undergraduates and from that of uniformly good weather throughout the season. A very large number of candidates reported for both the University and Freshman crews and continued to row daily until the fall regatta during the last week of October virtually put an end to all but individual rowing...
...pair oar races, which have been postponed from Friday on account of the cold weather, will be rowed over the one-mile course in the Charles river Basin from the Cottage Farm bridge to the Harvard bridge this afternoon. All entrants should report at the Newell Boathouse dressed to row at 8.30 o'clock. Cups will be awarded the winners...