Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great superiority of this system over that of this year's Harvard crew is on the recover. The pose of the trunk is free, open and erect. The oar is feathered with the wrists; the hands are shot away at once in the same plane with the arms, and with the assistance of the powerful muscles of the shoulder, while the arms quickly resume their proper place. The ease and rapidity of these actions increase the speed and control the equilibrium. The muscles are exerted equally, and the erect trunk permits the lungs to be filled with deep draughts...
...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...
...sliding seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...
...colleges, it will not be fostered anywhere, and will disappear forever. That would be an evil. Four years of isolation at college is not to be desired; but Harvard, we believe, gains in being on a side road where the rumble of the continually passing trains on the trunk line is not heard; so our meditations are not interrupted and we do not become "men of the world" before our time...
Special round trip rates for students to all paints South and West via Fitchburg, Grand Trunk and West Shore R. R. Good to go from Dec. 13 to 24, and return until, Jan, 10, 1887. Full information and tickets at Leavitt & Peirce...