Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., June 12, 1916.--The sun was out today for the first time since the University crews began their practice here, but the clouds moved too much for it in the end, and the afternoon saw a hard rain most of the time. This morning University A went for a three-mile paddle, while the second and Freshman crews did but half that distance. No strenuous work was attempted, and all crews merely tried to get back in shape after their rest over Sunday...
...morning practice today saw C. C. Lund '16 back at stroke on University A, and R. R. Brown '17 rowed his old place at stroke on the second boat. Crew A had a regulation work-out, but an exciting race was staged between the Freshmen and the second eight. The 1919 shell secured a bad start, but by raising the stroke they soon caught up and held their own until near the finish, when the second crew with a fine spurt shot ahead and won by a length. The race was over the two-mile course upstream...
...victory over Harvard. The writer's personal idea of the Yale crew was that it needed a certain balance, a certain shifting about--not necessarily a casting out of the men who rowed as regulars at Ithaca. But Mr. Nickalls gained his own conclusions from what he saw at Ithaca, and has acted upon them. He, to fall into the vernacular, is the doctor. Yale's failures at Philadelphia and at Ithaca have been explained in a number of ways. Theories relating to varying density of the water and consequent deviations in the buoyancy of the Yale shell have been...
...records for the last four years, however, show a very even division of honors. This year is Princeton's; last year belonged to Yale; the year before was a three-cornered tie; and the year before that saw Harvard's last championship...
...saw, "In union there is strength," be true, let the Union show its strength by standing on its own legs...