Word: shake
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew's body work is still ragged and the boat is more or less unsteady. They are rowing more a snappy and a shorter stroke than they were before last week's shake up. The boat moves well between strokes. Their catch is firm and hard, but the finish lacks this firmness...
...allow last Saturday's defeat to discourage us however keenly we feel the sting which comes with it. But the University does feel that its support can be heartily given only when there is complete assurance that every man is doing his best. Mere reverses of fortune should never shake the strength of the support given to the team, but a loss of confidence may have that effect. It is to be hoped that today's game will leave no doubt any where that our team is one which every Harvard man may be proud to stand up for. Michigan...
...usual 14 oarsmen have been retained to remain at work till after the Easter vacation, which begins on April 10. Daily shake-ups in the boat are the rule, but during the Easter week's training three or four graduate coachers will spend all their time with the crew, and the candidates will be kept on the water a great part of the time...
...technical trouble with the boat seems to be that the weight is unevenly distributed, the waist being loaded down with 200-pounders and the ends with light-weights. This will lead to a more general shake-up during the Easter vacation than has yet been experienced. The boat moves rather evenly, but it seems impossible to get up a high rate of speed...
Blake, who seemed early in the year to have a pretty good show for the boat, has, with Waters, who has rowed for several months, gone out of training. These two men being taken out of two very important places, together with the general shake-up which the crew got last week, has given the coach practically a new crew to work...