Word: swing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...motions. He is slow in starting forward, and in coming back lets his slide get ahead of his shoulders. He does not draw his hands way in to his body. No. 6 does not get any reach with his body, and is slow in starting forward. He swings back too far, and does not row his shoulders back, thus making his finish weak. He swings out from his oar at the finish. No. 5 gets a weak finish and does not sit up well. He lets his outside shoulder swing forward on the full reach...
...Stroke swings back too far. On the full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish...
...does so. No. 7 is slow in starting forward, and does not use his shoulders well, fails to row them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble is a lack of power and life in his stroke. No. 4 catches too hard, and then jerks...
Some dissatisfaction was expressed at the speed with which the chapel exercises were got under way yesterday morning. Many students who entered chapel while the bell was still in full swing were surprised to find the assembled classes engaged in returning the closing responses to the psalm, while those who were a trifle more tardy and arrived just after the last peal of the bell had died away were compelled to rush to their seats during the reading of the scriptures...
Yesterday the first revolutions of the cumbrous wheels of the college machine made us aware that a new, and for many of us the final, year of student life had begun. To-day the mill is in full swing, busily engaged in the task of grinding out its annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General...