Word: slides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weep w'en de men don' slide...
...steady improvement under Col. Bancroft's instruction, and rows in a manner gratifying to all interested in Harvard's success. The time is good and the oars fall well together; there is, however, a tendency in the oars to come up in the middle of the stroke, and the slides are hurried down while the leg force is not put on with enough snap. Stroke does not swing enough; five does not face his oar enough and bow clips; No. 4 lets his slide go too soon and does not catch deep enough. Sawyer and Gilman have recently exchanged places...
...rope. No doubt the first freshman that tries the escape will jump from the window with one end of the rope tied to the staple and the other around his body. The philosophical soph will run down stairs to tie it around a tree, and then go back to slide down. The junior will not need the rope, for he will be down at Carl Mattes' until all the fires on the premises have been extinguished. The senior will take a last, long lingering look at his Langtry chromo and die happy. - [Argonaut...
...crew, they have not yet become shaken together, so that there are several breaks in the time. They are at present doing the elementary work, rowing a few strokes by numbers, and then a few with stiff arms. They do not yet row the full stroke with the slide. The men seem to be well matched, and will make an evenly graded eight...
...quickly determined to let the thing slide...