Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ephraim G. Stubbs, stroke, William Shakespere Stubbs...
Heap-swearing Fox, stroke, Heap-pull Charley...
...have received a very sensible article on gymnasium work for the winter. The writer suggests that, as an improvement for the benefit of the rowing-men, new rowing-weights should be provided, and the seats for these weights should be placed as in a boat, to facilitate learning the stroke from skilful oarsmen, and to approach more nearly the disposition of a crew when on the river. It is suggested that each of the four clubs might provide two rowing-weights, thus lightening the tax on individual...
...task of adjudging blame to either is rendered hopeless by the contradictory statement of the members of the two crews. It is to be regretted that Harvard refused to row, a new race, as by this way only could the difficulty have been settled and the superiority of either stroke plainly demonstrated. - Cornell...
...work by pointing us down into the abyss of the unknowable. Alpine travellers tell us that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids...