Word: swings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are still thirty-two candidates left for the freshman crew. The men on the whole are an intelligent lot and as far as they have gone, have caught the idea of the work very well. As yet they have only had the body swing with oars at arms length. The rest of the work consists of dumbbell exercises and a run up North avenue...
There is a type of man in college who had enough on ordinary occasions, makes himself particularly obnoxious at this time of the year, when the final examinations are in full swing. We refer to the man who, not content with the privileges offered him by the library, is willing to sacrifice his own self respect and discommode his neighbor, by abusing these privileges to his utmost. It is a common occurrence when you wish to consult some reserved books in the departmental alcoves, to find some grasping individual in the same course comfortably seated with all the desirable volumes...
...pair oars so that the coach could give more attention to correcting the individual faults of the men. Although during the past two weeks the crew has been improving, there is still plenty of room for further advance. The chief fault seems to be that the body swing of the men is ragged, while their time is not more than fair. The coaching thus far has been almost entirely done by Perkins...
...work at stroke is admirable. Fearing at No. 7 is still slow in shooting the arms. Vail at No. 6 pulls a clean oar. Cummings at No. 5 is still a little out of good physical form by reason of his old trouble with the stomach, but he will swing into line by June Davis at, 4 does good work, as also does Richard, son at No. 2. Johnson at No, 3 is a little sluggish in recovering and in shooting the arms. Newell in the bow is steady and reliable. Yesterday afternoon the coach used the new four oared...
Finally among the English crews nearly all the men swing a little bit out of the line of the boat. This swing is very little, indeed but still it is quite perceptible. The coaches always try to correct this but do not rigidly insist upon...