Word: blade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the small number of times the class crews have rowed together, their work is not as far advanced as it should be so short a time before the race. The Senior crew is the farthest advanced; their blade work is good and they row well together, but have a tendency to slowness in starting the recover. The make-up of the Junior and Sophomore crews has been considerably changed lately, but they have nevertheless improved greatly in the last few days. The Law School crew has not attempted to adopt the new stroke introduced this year...
Individually the men on the first Weld are good oars, but owing to the small number of times they have rowed together the crew as a whole is not up to the standard of the first crew of last year. The blade work is fairly good, but the men do not seem to get any drive to their strokes. In addition to these faults the recovery is too slow and there is a tendency to rush the slides...
...first Newell crew has shown a marked improvement in its work this week. The blade work is good, and the men control their slides fairly well. They are, however, rather slow at the start and finish...
...case of the first Weld, the men on the second have a strong tendency to rush, their slides, and to be poor in their blade work. The second Newell has retrograded somewhat during the week, the recovery being unsteady and the blade work poor. Nevertheless, both second crews are well up to the average, and should make the first section race very close...
...rather unsatisfactory. The first crew rowed in unchanged order. The men were better together, but seemed unable to keep their boat on an even keep. Coach Higginson, during the first part of the practice, gave special attention to individual members of the crew laying particular stress on the blade work. On the way back to the boathouse from Harvard Bridge both crews practiced the Cornell stroke, which consists in pulling the oar rapidly through the water and taking a great deal of time on the recover. In this stroke the oars are trained very close to the water, the feather...