Word: waters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rowing was, or the whole, a great improvement on that of previous second crews, showing more skill and practice together. The Weld Four "caught" very well together on the beginning, but did not row the stroke well through. Almost every one on the second crews feathered under water, and some went so far as to sliver the stroke. The feather, though itself not giving speed to the boat, is yet one of the most important parts of the stroke; for not only is a bad feather likely to retard the boat and waste strength by catching...
...first afternoon that the water is smooth, the Freshman Crew and the Holworthy Six will race from the third bridge to the Union Boat-House. During the next week the Freshmen will probably now Matthews and Weld over the same course...
...last Magenta we gave a table showing the time of high-water for two weeks. As the time of high tide at the boat-house is fully as important as the time in Boston, we continue the table for two weeks more...
...HIGH WATER...
...cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance). Mr. Peirce, of '76, was to have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty of which a Junior member boldly complained, saying that his subject was such that he had been obliged to write a pack of prodigious nonsense, which he was going...