Word: slides
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christmas, can hardly be said to have got fairly started until after the mid-years, a number of the best men having laid off during the examinations. Up till yesterday the time has been spent on the rudiments of the stroke. Yesterday, however, the men rowed with a small slide. The candidates are noticeably light but are rowing as well as could be expected. The crews at present are made up as follows...
...whole the men are doing fairly well for this time of year, but are at present a little at sea, for they have just begun rowing the full stroke without the slide. They are of nearly even size, and apparently of nearly equal ability, and the chances are that they will average well when finally picked...
...talk with the crew on the theory of rowing and explained the present mode of rowing in England. There is an almost absolute similarity between the principles of rowing in England and in Yale and Harvard. There are some points of difference; all Englishmen are agreed that the slide and body swing ought to go together both in the stroke and in the recover; in Yale the swing and slide go together on the recover but not in the stroke. Harvard men bring their slides and body swing into one motion in the stroke and separate them on the recover...
...Ives '93, is a new man and doesn't hold his slide under him either at the catch or finish, bucks at the finish, and is very slow in getting his hands away from his body. He is also a little slower than 8, not following his time as he should...
...faults of the men are as follows: Bow goes back too far. 2 swings round too far at full reach, and doesn't pull his oar through. 3 doesn't finish his stroke, gets too little body swing, and starts his slide too slowly. 4 feathers too flatly, and doesn't pull his stroke through to the body. 5 needs to wake up, and yeaks his hands in at finish. 6 is awkward, feathers poorly, is unsteady on recover, and doesn't swing out quick enough. 7 doesn't follow stroke quick enough, and doesn't pull his oar through...