Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another column. The reasons given for declining the proposal are that the Oxford term ends early in June, that the 'Varsity men do not keep together after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep in trim through the summer. Oxford is not confident of beating Cambridge, as six of last year's crew have left the boat, and in case of her defeat she fears a race with the losers would be unsatisfactory to Harvard. It may seem to some unfair that we should be deprived...
...hold on the water; and his back and shoulders (and also No. 4's) should be kept more firmly set and rigid. All superfluous body motions exhaust the strength of the men who make them, render it more difficult for those behind them to keep time, and disturb the trim of the boat...
...cannot agree entirely with the writer in this week's Crimson in his argument against the desirability of Freshman crews. Upper-classmen are apt to monopolize the places in the club boats; but the men who rowed on the Freshman crew in their Sophomore year are in capital trim to take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth...
...great pity that the first crews do not row in shells, for watermanship will be a lost art outside of the University and Freshman crews, and the candidates for the highest boating honors of the College will have had no opportunity of learning how to "sit" and "trim" a light boat...
...with substitutes in case of accidents. With a crew of new men, such as the Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...