Word: swings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics of a similar kind "River Wind" compares not unfavorably...
...clock. Third Weld caught the water first and pulled steadily ahead. But for the tactics of their coxswain, who persisted in steering his boat towards the Cambridge shore, the margin at the finish would have been greater. Third Newell was very crude in form and failed entirely to swing together...
Four new songs were tried, and all seemed equally popular. Three of the songs, "Harvard's Victory," "The Gridiron King," and "A Battle Song," have the sort of swing which is most desired in a football song. "Reliance" makes up in musical quality what it lacks in swing. No decision was reached by the Song Committee as to the superiority of any one song...
...Morgan especially by the fact that he has rowed on the port side this year and last. At bow Tappan rowed in his usual smooth form. He will probably be kept in this position and is especially fitted for it on account of the steadiness of his body swing throughout every stroke. Just above the Longwood bridge the men climbed into the launch, and their shell was towed back to the boathouse...
...four-oared crews have been rowing in the same order regularly, but the men do not yet swing well in unison, as may be expected when account is taken of the fact that they have been together only since Thursday. Yesterday they raced a mile against the current below Longwood bridge. The crew stroked by Morgan won by two lengths in 5 and 1-2 minutes. This four seemed to have more strength, but not such smooth from as that stroked by Ball...