Word: swings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rhyming verse and so makes about the best feature of the paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed in a sonnet...
Both the graded and Freshman crews have been developing very slowly of late. The Newell graded eights have gained a long even swing, but have gained this at the expense of snap and life. Any attempt to enliven the work is invariably accompanied by a rushed recovery. The men are slow at both ends of the stroke, especially at the finish. This unsatisfactory work is due very largely to repeated absences of the oarsmen; on several days the first crew has not rowed...
...results of these two years do not by any means prove that the style attempted was wrong. Nevertheless, it seemed safer in '99 to shorten the body swing a little, lengthen the slide, and seat the men lower in the boat, and the same style and rigging have been kept...
...generously consented to do. On his arrival he set to work to change the style, so that it should conform to what was generally considered best in England. The two most important and obvious changes were shortening the slide by four or five inches and lengthening the body swing forward and back by about double. There were of course a number of other changes in the rigging which were also important but which would require too much space to be treated here...
...which proved to be serious mistake, as the climate and locality had an injurious effect upon the men. The result of the race was, as everybody knows, most disastrous. The Harvard crew had, a week before, made before, made exceedingly fast time, but in the race the long body swing and the had effect of the climate played such have with the crew that it failed finish...