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Gallaudet, stroke, sets an unusually steady stroke; his chief fault seems to be in rowing in too mechanical a manner; this does not combine and run into each other the different elements. This tends to make his stroke short. On the recovery his oar goes very high into the air and frequently doesnot come down to the water over the catch as it should...
...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...will meet a different kind of a nine on Monday from that which it met on May 7. From yesterday's score it is very evident that at the first game between Harvard and Princeton something went wrong with the Princeton nine, and it is also evident that the fault, if it was a real fault not the mere result of an off day, has since been corrected. Harvard will have no such easy victory on Decoration Day as many have been sanguine enough to expect. The warning of overconfidence cannot be too often hammered into Harvard men. Princeton...
...lack of knowledge about base-running. Only two bases were stolen, and in a number of cases the men were caught napping, and thrown out. This is a serious lack, and will do a great deal of harm if it is not remedied very early. It is the same fault which has been apparent in nearly every game this year...
...present and will probably go on the water sometime next week. There are eleven men at work now, ten of whom will be kept to the end. The crew is much better than the average freshman crew. According to a criticism in a New York paper their general fault is that they drop at the full slack and rush their slides. Though it is the duty of both Harvard and Yale to challenge this year, they have not yet done so, and no races have been arranged...