Word: though
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just after passing the bridge Higginson raised the stroke and the 1900 boat moved to the lead. The Junior crew was unable to respond to a higher stroke, it had no power though the form was good. Dobyns took it up for a beautiful spurt in the Senior boat and his crew passed '99 about a half mile from the finish and steadily closed in on the Sophomores until the line was crossed. Had the course been an eighth of a mile longer the Freshmen would have passed '99. The work of 1901 throughout was very promising and their final...
...crews. Half way to the bridge they were nearly a length ahead of '98, the second crew, and rowing easily at thirty-two strokes to the minute. '99 was last and 1901 and the Law School eight were just behind the Seniors. This order was maintained through the bridge, though '98 was gaining, and '99 had dropped still farther behind...
...team, as a whole, is fielding very well, but the batting is not what it should be. The infield plays a pretty steady though rather slow game. In the outfield, the men are fairly sure on fly balls but, with the exception of Sears, do not cover enough ground...
...concerned we would recommend the elective. We believe that no prescribed course even though counting toward a degree, would receive the general endorsement that would an elective, and further an elective course offers much broader posibilities. Inevitably any prescribed system must be carried on along certain restricted lines, while many alternatives may be offered in an elective, and men enabled to choose their favorite form of exercise. For instance, not only would those training for the athletic teams be excused from any fixed form of exercise, but tennis, boxing, fencing, golf, bicycling, could be taken into account, and even geological...
...call for volunteers, that a great many would respond in the same spirit. There always have been such men, doubtless there were in '61, and think what a revulsion they must have had then. In fact it is one thing to take a matter cheerfully though seriouly, and another to consider everything a big joke...