Word: slide
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman crew squad was divided yesterday into two temporary eights which took a short row on the river above the Newell and were coached from the launch by H. Bancroft '98. Most of the work was done by fours, with special attention to the catch and the slide. The orders of the two crews were as follows...
Professor von Klenze will lecture tonight in the Fogg Lecture Room on "The Evolution of the Nature-Sense in Painting: The Old Italian Masters." The lecture will be illustrated by lantern-slide views of paintings from a long period of Italian art, principally those in which the landscape is an important feature. The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the public...
...style taught by Mr. Lehmann was the same as that used before and since then, in theory and in a manner of applying the power. It differed in using a greater length of body swing, both forward and back; using a shorter slide and in several other less important details, all of which gave the crew when in motion a very different appearance from that to which we had been accustomed. All hands took hold with enthusiasm and the men apparently mastered the new style, so that by the end of May '97 the crew was going at a good...
...results of these two years do not by any means prove that the style attempted was wrong. Nevertheless, it seemed safer in '99 to shorten the body swing a little, lengthen the slide, and seat the men lower in the boat, and the same style and rigging have been kept...
...supervise the coaching of Harvard rowing. This he kindly and generously consented to do. On his arrival he set to work to change the style, so that it should conform to what was generally considered best in England. The two most important and obvious changes were shortening the slide by four or five inches and lengthening the body swing forward and back by about double. There were of course a number of other changes in the rigging which were also important but which would require too much space to be treated here...