Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore second-crew is now made up as follows: S. Kittredge, stroke, F. Minot, R. W. Guild, J. B. Olmstead, H. Sargent, J. Wheelwright, bow and captain...
...Scientific Crew is now made up, and is in good practice. It consists of M. James, stroke; S. Perkins, Jr., 2; E. D. Thayer, Jr., 3; G. W. Irving, 4; H. Denton, 5; and B. C. Davis...
FROM the Forest and Stream we gather the following in regard to the English crews who are to meet on Saturday next. Average weight of the Cambridge crew, 163 pounds, Average weight of the Oxford crew, 173 pounds. In the Oxford boat the stroke is the lightest man, and the bow the heaviest but one. In the Cambridge, the bow is the lightest, and the three heaviest are Nos. 4, 5, and 6. The indications of a good race are numerous, the betting being two to one in favor of the lighter crew...
...business in college journalism. The last number contains a couple of beautiful woodcuts of the new boathouse, together with an accurate sketch of some double-scullists, and a lifelike representation of the University Six, showing the true Yale position of the back and shoulders at the beginning of the stroke. We wish it every success in its new enterprise, and only hope it may not follow the example of most illustrated papers, and become sensational. We say this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs...
...rumors of his having gone to England for some purpose connected with the commons, connected with the professorship of Zoology, and with the method of conducting examinations, are unfounded; and it is asserted with the greatest confidence that the real object of his visit is to learn the English stroke...