Word: swing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Banjo Club has been handicapped also by the absence of its regular leader, R. F. Tucker, who was ill for some time. The club, though showing a lack of precision, plays with a good deal of swing and spirit...
...Lawrence, No. 7, fails to swing in with his shoulders and is often behind stroke. He is the strongest oar in the boat...
...quite with him. Biddle gets a hard catch but has been inclined to weaken on the finish. Captain Perkins, in spite of his late illness, is at present rowing the best oar in the boat. His blade is notably good and he gets a long body swing and steady drive from the stretcher. Heath, at 5, has gone off of late. He is a good worker and a strong oar, but does not catch the boat with the rest and rushes his slide badly. C. S. Derby 2M., who rowed bow on the '96 'Varsity crew, was tried...
Among the melodies which are sure to be best applauded by the Harvard men next Tuesday evening, Harvard Night at "The Chorus Girl" performance, Boston Museum, is a march taken from the Pi Eta play, "Fool's Gold," which will be sung with splendid swing by the chorus. Other melodies which will cause the waving of college colors will doubtless be the patriotic song, "Yankee Dewey went to Sea Upon a Cruiser," a parody on "Yankee Doodle;" a pretty child ballad based on "Jack and Jill," and a ditty concerning a theatre cat. This latter is perhaps the funniest ditty...
...crews are rowing a long stroke with considerable swing. The chief difficulty at present is their inability to keep the boats on their keels. Ninety-eight rowed two stretches with the graduates on Monday and won with ease. Ninety-nine was to have rowed a trial against the nineteen hundred regular, but it was postponed...