Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work ever since the beginning of the term. The crew is at present constituted as follows: Bow, Sessions, 151 lbs.; 2, H. B. Cabot, 157 lbs.; 3, Codman, 158 lbs.; 4, Binney, 156 lbs.; 5, Baxter, 177 lbs.; 6, Hubbard, 175 lbs.; 7, E. T. Cabot (capt.), 183 lbs.; stroke, S. Coolidge, 158 lbs.; cox., S. P. Sanger. Average weight, 164 3/8 lbs. It will thus be seen that the crew is a heavy one, averaging three or four pounds heavier than last year. As they have but recently commenced to row as a crew, they have not yet become...
...Princeton College President McCosh reviewed the progress the institution has made in the widening of its area of usefulness since he entered upon his office, and called attention to the fact that there had been no addition to the mental, moral and political sciences. "It would be a great stroke of wisdom," he said, "for the friends of the college to establish a School of Philosophy equal or superior to any in the country...
...over a cricket match seems almost an absurdity. In base-ball one acquainted with the rules cannot fail to be intensely interested in a close game, but in cricket it is not only necessary to know the rules, but one must be able to appreciate the nicety of every stroke of the batsman and of every ball delivered by the bowler. It is a game for which, to thoroughly appreciate, one must have almost an hereditary feeling. That such a feeling can be developed in four years of college life is not to be expected, and it is only when...
...although it might not be advisable for any of our future oarsmen to take a thorough course of training at Exeter, and thus get into bad form and rowing habits inconsistent with our stroke here, still enough work to accustom men to swinging an oar and sitting in a boat would be eminently beneficial to those Exeter men who expect to row after entering Harvard...
...Yale crew, with several substitutes, are now working systematically. The stroke of last year will probably be adopted...