Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the new stroke adopted by the Yale College oarsmen differs from the old one in these particulars: The reach forward is much longer, and the body is not swung so far back of the perpendicular. The slides are shorter, and on the recover the body is drawn up slower, which, it is held, does not stop the momentum of the boat as much as the quicker slide. The hands are thrown away from the body very rapidly. The oars are pulled through the water about as quickly as last year, however. Although the motions within the boat...
...Americana" was the most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers...
...eight-oared shells between Columbia, '86, and Harvard, '86, was rowed on the afternoon of June 27, and proved an easy victory for Harvard, the blue and white being left six lengths (19 seconds) in the rear. At the start the Harvard crew instantly forged ahead, rowing 41 strokes to their opponents 47. Columbia rowed in poor form, splashing very badly and rolling the boat. Harvard's perfect form almost immediately gave her a commanding lead, and before the first half minute was passed the men in the Cambridge boat felt sure of victory. The half mile was passed...
...odds offered were largely in favor of the blue. The arrangements for the race were complete in every respect, and promptly at 5.41 P. M. the referee gave the signal for starting. The difference in the style of the two crews was at once noticeable. Yale's short, jerky strokes, 44 to the minute, pulls her quickly to the front, but Harvard keeps on with her long powerful stroke, pulling at first 42 to the minute, soon dropping to 38. By the time the crews have reached the quarter mile flag, Yale is almost a length ahead. This, however...
...river on which it should happen; but like the statesman of Massachusetts I have changed my mind. I shall stay by this river until Yale is Victorians, even if I remain a thousand and one years to come-and I fear that if Yale does not change that unfortunate stroke I shall be waiting here until the odd year arrives." After expressing the hope that the Harvard men would not paint the whole town red, the governor retired amid the cheers of the crowd...