Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...material for a good crew but as yet they have many faults. They row too fast a stroke and their time and body work are rather ragged; there is a tendency to slump at the end of the stroke and to meet the oar, and the men are rather slow on the shoot. Nevertheless they row with a good deal of snap and they have a powerful leg drive...
Brown '98 caught last year for the freshmen. He is a good catcher and a fair hitter, but is inclined to be a little slow...
...gone about it in the right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light exercise on the pulley weights or with the wooden dumb-bells. But to some these methods seem slow and tedious. They desire to become strong in a few days, and so they try to lift heavy iron bells and perform feats upon the parallel and horizontal bars. The result of such a method of training naturally is that these men find themselves growing weaker instead of stronger...
...functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students."- (y) It would not then unify Harvard spirit.- (b) No experience of other universities can form...
...relay. The final event of the evening was the Harvard-Pennsylvania team race, the closest and most exciting of all. The first relay was between Eaton of Harvard and Sterritt of Pennsylvania. Sterritt finished three yards ahead Boyer took Sterritt's place and Eaton touched Marshall, who was slow in getting off. Marshall succeeded in making up the lost ground and finished almost equal with his opponent. In the third relay Harrison of Pennsylvania and Williams of Harvard started out, the Pennsylvania man leading by a yard. Williams passed Harrison in the last lap and finished five yards ahead...