Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morris I. Stern...
...spurt at the first third of a mile mark Appleton sent his crew a length into the lead. The spurt was beautifully timed and showed Crew A up to the best advantage. At the Harvard Bridge the University had a quarter of a length of open water behind its stern, with the yearlings rowing at about 32. After the bridge, however, the University stroke dropped while the 1924 boat increased its beat; as a result the second Freshmen gained a little and were only two-thirds of a length behind when the first 1924 boat took up the race. Fresh...
Earlier in the afternoon Coach Howe divided the Freshman eight into two four-oared crews composed respectively of the men in the bow and the men in the stern. In a short brush with the Browne and Nichols four-oared crew, the 1924 bow four came in ahead of the stern four, while the schoolboys trailed...
...Harvard indifference" is the offspring of Puritanism and intellectual detachment. It is socially impeccable but not ingratisting. The New Englander is by nature more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
...Harvard indifference" is the offspring of Puritanism and intellectual detachment. It is socially impeccable but not ingratisting. The New Englander is by nature more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...