Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity baseball practice yesterday consisted as usual of batting and fielding. Wrenn acted as captain in the absence of Captain Whittemore, who is still unable to use the ankle which he injured in the Princeton game. Whittemore will probably be able to play in the Pennsylvania game next Saturday, however...
...wind, or a cross wind, it takes a four-oared crew about twenty seconds longer to row up than down, which would make the course about ten seconds slower than dead water. During regattas navigation is suspended, and the continuous closing of the locks deadens the stream still more. The current is so slight that, with a moderate wind behind them, boats lying at ease slowly float up stream. The Schuylkill River, at Philadelphia, starting where the National races finish, and rowing up stream, is as nearly like the Henley water as any one course could be like another...
...which the Yard is used in hot weather as a loafing place for young Cambridge "muckers," and still more the way in which the outside public almost monopolizes the College pump, is extremely offensive. There should surely be some means of securing to Harvard students the more exclusive enjoyment of the advantages of the Yard. As long as the public did not intrude too disagreeably, it may have been well to leave them undisturbed; but that point is now far passed. Students are repeatedly annoyed and decidedly inconvenienced by the presence of outsiders who have no right whatever of free...
There has been no change in the make-up of the crew since the official list was given out. Hamilton still hits the stroke up to 50 with perfect ease, and many have an idea that on certain days, when Courtney refuses to allow any one to accompany him on the launch, that the stroke exceeds...
...than the record time for the Henley course, which is 6.51. Last year the Oleander Club won the race in 7.12. Of course, the Henley race is against the current, and there time comparisons are not reliable; but the fact that the Cornell crew is able to row on still water this early in the season within six seconds of the record time is a very clear indication that it is a very fast crew, and will make things lively and interesting for the English oarsmen...