Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perkins '91, 7, captain. Has rowed three years, two of them on the 'varsity. Weight 168, slow at catch and finish...
Kelton '93, 6, 193 pounds. Rowed against Yale last year. Meets his oar and is somewhat slow at the finish...
...Glidden 167. Rows pretty well. Apt to draw his arms in too fast and is slow in starting his body forward...
...rank with the best of Beethoven's. The magnificent passages for the trombones in the first movement, one of the finest things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with the ever varying varieties of tone-color of the different instruments, the effect is far differenct...
...first crew rows better with the oars than without. The men in the bow have a slight tendency to catch the water ahead of the stroke. The crew, as a whole, do not use their stretchers enough and are rather slow at the finish in starting back...