Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first Weld Freshman crew rows a fairly low stroke but is well together. When the stroke is hit up there is a tendency to rush the slides. The crew is slow at starting, but improves as it settles down. Their order is: Stroke, Macomber (capt.); 7, Minturn; 6, Thanisch; 5, Adams; 4, Lindsley; 3, Chadwick; 2, Krumbhaar; bow, Fairchild; cox., Swan...
...second Freshmen row a slow stroke and as soon as they spurt show a tendency to rush their slides. Their body motion is uneven and the ragged blade work causes the boat to roll considerably. They row as follows: Stroke, Hague; 7, Crane; 6, Gardner; 5, Hull; 4, Welldon; 3, Blagden; 2, Tuckerman; bow, Marsalis...
...more life than usual was shown in the practice yesterday, but the general work of the team was still unreliable. All of the line men showed important faults, which made the defense weak at times and ruined the good work of the backs on the attack. The men were slow in charging, failed to follow the ball and played too high, consequently, very little headway was made through the centre of the line J. Lawrence alone was free from these faults, but his usual tendency to play offside appeared again and was more costly than the slowness of the other...
...team play. On the offense the mass play interference was better than it has been and the end running was fairly effective. There was still a great deficiency in the defensive work and it was to this that the coaches gave most of their attention. The men seemed slow and lacked the fighting spirit which is the great factor in a strong defense. There was also a general failure to follow the ball closely. The left side of the line was very weak, and Mifflin of the second team broke through it repeatedly for gains varying from five to twenty...
...will make a circuit through the city. Beginning at London Tower, he will follow up the river, by Whitehall and Charing Cross, up the Strand to Ludgate Hill and St. Paul's; down Cheapside and through the city, back to the Tower. The one hundred pictures which he will slow in the two lectures are taken, in the main, from old engravings and wood cuts. Many of these pictures have been collected in the Harvard Library, but a considerable number have been imported by Professor Baker himself. It is the purpose of the lecturer to give an idea of London...