Word: stern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular coaching lately and they show the need of it badly. Last week Mr. Watson gave them some attention, but now that the freshmen have come out on the river he has no time for this. Kernan has done some coaching from a pair-oar and from the stern of the boat. The crew had been rowing until yesterday with full slides but they have now gone back to strapped seats. The time yesterday was very ragged...
...crew will race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...
...little improvement. The men row a fast and powerful stroke, but they are inclined to be careless and their time is poor. Dunlop, at four, causes the worst break in the boat, and Chatman and Gleason, are not up to the standard of the rest of the crew. The stern four, however, row fairly well, and without any noticeable break in time...
Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...
...unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that on the firm rock of their faith was founded our state and our college, and that they have stood firm through two hundred and fifty years of controversies and trouble...