Word: work
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...high stroke all the way, the University eight raising it to 38 to the minute on the last few hundred yards. The University crew took the lead at the start and gradually increased it till the end. Both crews rowed well, but some faults were made evident by the work, and the rest of the afternoon was spent in trying to eradicate them. The time announced for the University boat was 5 minutes and 35 seconds...
...rest of the work today was fairly light for all the crews. In the morning, the boats averaged about four miles each, and the two eights each tried some racing starts. This afternoon the University eight rowed two miles in addition to the mile race...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 11m 1908.--The University crew had its first real work on the Thames this afternoon when a time trial was held over the four-mile course. After taking the shell down stream to the railroad bridge, the men climbed into their seats from the John Harvard and after one short stretch to limber up, turned and rowed to the line. Without any racing start the shell was carried up stream at the rate of 26 strokes to the minute. This gait was held till the crew reached the three-mile flag; there...
...other crews the afternoon's work was light. The Freshman eight paddled two miles slowly after the University crew had left the river and both the four-oars had light work. In the morning, however, the Freshman four was sent a mile on time, covering the distance in 5 minutes, 47 seconds, and the half-mile in 2 minutes, 55 seconds. The crew rowed hard all the way, but the time is not considered particularly encouraging. The University four-oared also rowed on the course in the morning. They did not try for speed, but were sent over the first...
...occasion, but he can state intricate aesthetic problems with refreshing simplicity and describe the attributes of a painting or its author with a precision which a scientist might envy and a quality which stamps it as literary. He is to be congratulated on having accomplished the most important work of its kind which has appeared in the last decade from the pen of any English speaking art critic...