Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amount paid J. L. & R. Nesbitt (extra work...
...superintends the goodies is much disturbed, we hear, by the complaints which have been lately made in the college papers about her subordinates. It is her business to see that the women who have charge of our rooms do their work properly. For this purpose she makes weekly tours of the buildings, inspects the rooms, and is ready to receive any complaints that may be made. The invariable reply to her question if the goody does her work well, is, according to her statement, "O yes. All right." She finds it difficult, therefore, to discover where the trouble lies...
...Club Crews, thus deprived of many of their best men, find it hard to keep afloat, and for want of material rather than pluck, do much less real work than formerly. Still the general effect of the new system is very beneficial, for by affording more opportunities for rowing than the old one, it keeps more crews on the river and is therefore likely to develop a larger number of good oarsmen...
...sixes are mostly made up, and are doing a moderate amount of work. There is the usual speculation as to each crew's chances of victory, but as the men on the crews are changed almost daily, it would be no easy matter to make a correct prophecy...
Matthews is now rowing with W. F. Weld, '76, stroke, S. Perkins, L. S. S., E. T. Hastings, '76, T. W. Preston, '79, W. Sheafe, '79, J. Q. A. Brett, '77, bow. The crew work quite well together, they pull a fast stroke, and there is a general tendency in the boat to roll...