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...crews. The training consists of rowing in the tank, daily runs, and exercise on the chest-weights and with dumb-bells. The first crew is doing fairly well, but there is a noticeable lack of interest about the second crew that is deplorable. They show a tendency to shirk their work and many of them fail to finish on the daily runs. However, the fact that they rowed the full stroke yesterday for the first time accounts in a measure for their general unsteadiness and irregularity. Both the crews dip too deep and the men do not seem to realize...
...work and learning to hold the oars. Almost every one is loose and unsteady. Every one of the men has several individual faults but they are hardly far enough along to criticise them yet. The worst thing of all about the men is that many of them want to shirk everything they can. Some of them are very irregular in coming out and cannot be depended on at all. On a run a few days ago five of the men tried to drop out. With such a spirit as this the freshmen cannot hope to have a strong crew. What...
...lack snap and put very little heart into their work. They do not go in as if they realized that two important games with Yale and perhaps one with Princeton are to be played which can be won only by faithful and hard work. There is a tendency to shirk the sliding and running especially. About 18 men will be kept practising during the Easter vacation, and all the others will be dropped in the next few weeks. The nine will go out doors as soon as the weather permits...
...great fault of the team as a whole is a tendency to shirk and play half-heartedly. It is time Ninety-live showed themselves to be men. Morse L. S. had done admirable work considering the material he has had, but the class should do more for the support of the team and rouse some enthusiasm among the candidates by their presence as spectators on Norton's Field...
...what all men should expect to find in their own lives and those of their fellows. The gloomy pessimist and the careless, selfish man who turns his back on suffering are the evil extremes. We should be happy, as it is what Christ wishes us to be, but never shirk an unpleasant task or be callous to the cries of suffering. As a man hopes for happiness in a future life let him hold to the golden mean between such extremes as these...