Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Stroke, Byrd, has poor control of himself when paddling easily, letting the boat constantly travel down to port. Is rowing a much shorter stroke than that rowed in the class races...
...college, Cook was prominent in the Delta Upsilon and Pi Eta theatricals, among the plays he wrote being "The Tie that Binds," "The Warpath of Love," and "The Sorry Spectre" At present he is the editor of the Boston Budget and a contributor to several magazines. Several of his shorter plays have been published...
...Varsity had a shorter practice than usual yesterday. The men went through the regular work until 3.30, when they went down to the basin to watch the races...
...crew, in comparison with that of the other crews, will be closely watched on account of the methods used in training. Ninety-seven has been coached in watermanship by a professional oarsman (who has, contrary to the general supposition, given his services free of charge), has adopted a somewhat shorter and faster stroke than that taught by Mr. Lehmann, and has gone through an unusually hard course of training for a class crew. If the crew wins, it will probably result in changing, to a certain extent, the work of class crews in the future...
...Senior crew has been improving rapidly of late. They have done considerably more than any of the other class crews, rowing on an average seventeen miles a day. They have been coached by Mr. Goodenough and Casey of the Riverside Boat Club. They row a stroke somewhat shorter than that which the other crews use, and the recover is very much faster. The crew as a whole is apt to hurry and fails to use the leg drive soon enough. The watermanship is very good and has improved much of late. This crew is the heaviest of the four...