Word: downing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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All the crews settled down to about thirty two strokes a minute but the Newell seemed to have more life and sent their boat well ahead. At the half-mile the first Newell was half a length ahead with the first Weld and second Newell about even. The second Weld...
The first Weld Freshman crew rows a fairly low stroke but is well together. When the stroke is hit up there is a tendency to rush the slides. The crew is slow at starting, but improves as it settles down. Their order is: Stroke, Macomber (capt.); 7, Minturn; 6, Thanisch...
In the practice game of forty minutes with the second eleven the first scored two touchdowns, but was unable to prevent the second from making consecutive gains through the line. Stillman made both touchdowns and did some effective plunging, but he was slow in the interference and in getting his...
James Platt White has given us in "Mr. Frothman's Ambassador" a most intelligent criticism of the manager's mutilation of Mrs. Cragie's play and of his actors' mutilation of her characters. One feels with the critic that while "his Cragie's women stab each other with exquisitely wrought...
"The Genius of Stephen Crane" by G. H. Montague is another critical writing. Though in the main appreciating Crane's genius as a writer of vivid war stories, it attacks his work in general on the ground that skeptical realism held him down to too narrow limitations.