Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dana, Sturgis and Hartridge are the only new men. Hartridge rowed on last year's freshman crew at Yale. They are the lightest crew on the river. They jerk in their arms at the finish and do not sit up well. Their watermanship is very good. They keep excellent time. The men are very quick and row with a great deal of dash and spirit. Mr. W. A. Brooks has been coaching the crew...
...will give a grand concert at Eliot Hall, Newton, on the evening of April 4, 1888. In anticipation of a large attendance of Harvard students, the following arrangement has been made: The gallery containing 100 seats, will be sold for $35, thus enabling all who wish to go to sit together, and charging but 35 cents of the regular price of 50 cents...
...Must sit up to it better. Must work on those shoulders and get control of them. Doesn't get his arms straight. A certain looseness about his rowing...
...Doesn't swing on well with body. Meets. Doesn't make use of toe-straps. Doesn't sit up and rows short. His time...
...crew as a whole doesn't sit up to its work, and the time at present is very bad. Some of the new men are working better than the old ones. Captain Parker has done all the coaching...