Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...river, cheering on their crews, tumbling over each other sometimes in the wildest confusion, - for the path is narrow, and at one place there is but a very miserable wooden bridge, where there is always a terrible crush. The steering of the crews is a matter of the greatest skill; for a bump must be fairly made, an overlapping, merely, counts for nothing, and the coxswain of a boat which is in danger of being bumped is allowed to change his course as he thinks fit, to prevent the bump being made...
...Class Races have come and gone. Never before has so much excitement been aroused over this event, and never before has the result been so contradictory to the expectations of even the most knowing. The Freshmen, by an unprecedented display of muscle and skill, in spite of a poor boat and of an unfavorable position, distanced all their competitors, and may well be proud of their victory. With such a good beginning, '83 may be expected to lead hereafter in other races, and to furnish fine material to the University Crew next year. But their success, instead of making them...
...whom the skill of the busy days...