Word: swings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pieces, "Love and Death" and "Love by the Sea," by J.H.Wheelock, but the effort was worth the making, and the result is not unsatisfactory. The "De Senectute" of W.Tinekom-Fernandez is distinetly good, and the "Fair Harvard" of B.A.Gould, while unequal, has a lift and a swing that take the attention and keep it. J.T.Addison's "Solomon's Ship" is suggestive of color and feeling,and pleases...
...Dabney has the best form of all, resembling W. A. Larned's style very much. His swing is free and easy, both fore and backward. At times he is brilliant overhead. His service can be improved on, and when running to the net his tendency is to volley too carelessly. With more tournament play, he should rank among the first ten players, as he understands the game thoroughly...
...only 16 1-4 inches out-board, as compared with 20 inches on last year's boat. The use of thole-pins instead of swivel-rowlocks is supposed to give a firmer catch at the beginning of the stroke, afford the men a support to press against on the swing forward, and provide a means of telling when the members of the crew shoot their hands away in unison. The bottom of the boat is broader and flatter than the ordinary American shell...
...songs were, in general, much better than the rest, and most of them would be more appropriate for football songs if only the choruses were used. "Smash the Line" is difficult to sing, and "Cambridge Town" is complicated by the introduction. "No Hope for Yale" is simple and has swing, but the close is not so good as the beginning. "The Spirit of Harvard" has a good set of words and a spirited close: while the "Harvard Love Song" has a good chorus and high musical quality. "We're Harvard Men," set to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne...
...spite of all efforts to secure new songs, the mass meeting last evening proved that the familiar tunes are in no danger of being replaced. It is now scarcely ten days before the Yale game, and there is hardly time to learn songs which have little swing, and which have words unsuited to the music. The real test of a football song lies in the attitude of the men who sing it, and when everyone starts whistling a well-known tune as soon as a new song has been tried, the latter may well be considered condemned. We have...