Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cambridge Town," "No Hope for Yale," and "The Spirit of Harvard," which did not receive a fair trial at the last mass meeting owing to the band's lack of practice. New songs may be written to original tunes, or may be set to familiar tunes whose rhythm and swing make them appropriate football songs. The song or songs meeting with the most success at the mass meetings and at the Dartmouth game will be considered to have won the competition and will be used at the Yale game...
...make-up of the Committee can be convinced that there was any bad judgment shown in the choice of songs. The technical qualities of the compositions submitted were passed upon by the head of the musical department and by men prominently connected with undergraduate musical affairs. The rhythm and swing, equally necessary in a football song, were judged by prominent members of 1907 and 1908, who spared no pains to select the most suitable song...
...Bacon, was moved from 6 to 4, displacing Lunt, who was put in at stroke in the first four-oar. The crew rowed upstream two miles and back in easy stretches. The boat did not space so well as during the last few days, and the men did not swing on their oars in unison...
...time on account of sickness, definitely decided who should row at 2. Fish was tried for one day at bow, but his work there was very unsatisfactory, as shifting him from the side of the boat to which he had been accustomed, made his blade-work ragged and his swing out of time with the rest of the men. Burchard is now rowing at bow, but his work is less satisfactory than that of the other men, as he does not start forward soon enough on the recovery, and does not keep his oar buried...
...good stroke, and the work of yesterday, with Tappan in that position, was very satisfactory. There is also difficulty in getting three how men who will row together well. Burchard, Lunt, and Faulkner, who have been tried at these positions have been rowing short and are uneven in their swing. Faulkner, especially has been short and yesterday Swaim showed some improvement over his work...