Word: using
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just before the races; nor have the prizes offered been of a sufficiently high grade to induce men to train any length of time for them. Consequently the races are more or less uninteresting, and the general interest in rowing is lessened. Mr. Blakey has offered...
...reason why this plan should not meet with complete success. Members pay their fees directly to their officers, and are not allowed to use any boat before payment; the yearly fee will possibly be lowered still further, after the boats are entirely paid for, only enough money being required each year to pay running expenses. These are rent, taxes, and insurance on the house, a man's attendance, and repairs of the boats. Further a sinking fund is desirable, with which to buy new boats and oars...
THROUGH the courtesy of Captain Bancroft, the men trying for the club crews are permitted to use the hydraulic rowing-weights at the boat-house...
...obviate this, the captain of the University authorizes us to say, that he will be most glad to teach the captains of the several clubs the stroke adopted by his crew, that they may this year be able to properly coach their men and render them of permanent use. Moreover, as a coxswain has now become a part of the University crew, we must look to the clubs for a constant supply of light, trained steersmen; and this the captains should bear in mind when selecting their coxswains...
...present rate of progress, she will never reach the standard signified by that mystifying word. I say mystifying, for I think that the Harvard students have very cloudy notions as to what is meant by a university. Far be it from me to insinuate that those who use the term do not know what they are talking about; but they take it for granted too easily that the rest of the College are as well informed as themselves...