Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this custom in disgust at the adherence of Harvard to the worst faults in rowing. And this is a mild term to use, for I can truly say that I have never seen an individual member of a Harvard crew show that the first principles of a correct stroke were known to him. Finally I expressed the hope that Harvard would be badly beaten in the annual race for a series of years, believing that nothing short of this. would bring her to her senses. Now it appears that she is persuaded that something has been wrong, for we hear...
...follow the example of Yale, and either send a man to England to acquire the English style, or, if practicable, import an Englishman to Harvard who can coach the crews? In my own time we were fortunate enough to be coached for a short time by an ex-"'varsity" stroke from Cambridge, England, and his hints were invaluable...
...inclined to enroll myself among those who think that an undue prominence is given to the muscular, as compared with the intellectual, in our universities. Assuming, however, for the present, that they are wrong, and that a "stroke oar" is a more enviable man than a "summa cum laude," let us examine the question on the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well...
...muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good way to row; all others are bad. Why did Oxford beat Harvard? Because she was stronger...
...other than my chum. Greeting him with a warmth to which he failed, I fear, to assign its real cause, I forthwith abandoned my reverie for a social chat, which was continued till, at the stroke of midnight, our host bade us God speed...