Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Magazine. This is perhaps best explained by Mr. Warren K. Blodgett, Jr., '78, in the first number, October, 1892. He says: "Whatever is of interest to Harvard men in connection with their University; whatever will add to the value of the life which began at the University, and which still expresses itself through classes, clubs, and alumni associations; whatever would raise and broaden the ideals of the University itself, must find its most fitting place in these pages...
...fall work of the 'varsity crew candidates still continue every day on the river, and it is hoped that the men will derive so much benefit from this work that it will enable them to start work in the spring with better development than has usually been the case. The men have been rowing on alternate days in the four oared shell, the crews being made up as follow...
...class crew captains are still undecided on the question of fall class races, but it is to be hoped that they will renew the former custom of having races at this season of the year, as they tend in a great measure to keep up the interest in boating in the college...
...service of the men who are striving to regain her prestige on the water. For two reasons the response of the freshmen is important. They are to produce a crew which will do battle with the Yale and Columbia freshmen next June, and, more important still, they are to produce oarsmen who will sometime occupy seats in the 'varsity boat. Let all who have any fitness at all for rowing crowd the trophy room tonight. Few men are competent to judge of their own abilities as oarsmen, and since the work will be light and not taxing for some months...
...worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other faults. The men seem to feel that it makes no difference how they play so long as they do not actually stand still; attention, and above all implicit obedience to the words of the coachers seem to be almost entirely lacking. The men refuse to play where they are told and there is a great deal of unnecessary explanation and parleying. The freshmen should learn as soon as possible that a coacher...