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Tuesday, Jan. 23. - Twelve men present. Pull seven hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. The "time" has improved during the past two weeks, but the men are not well together on the shoot of the hands and the slide forward. Some of the men fail to get the proper recover. Loring reaches forward too much with his shoulders, does not sit up well at the finish, and is inclined to "settle." He shoots his hands quickly, but lets his body follow too fast. Legate fails to get enough body reach forward, does not always pull his oar "home...
Wednesday, Jan. 24. - Twelve men present. Pull eight hundred strokes, and run two miles. The worst fault is still the hurried recover. Preston fails as much as any to part with this. He gets a trifle too much reach with his body, reaches around with his outside shoulder, fails to sit up always at the finish, and does not pull his hands in high enough. His chief fault is that of using his arms too much. At no part of the stroke are they straight. He works well, but should put more fire into the stroke. Harriman...
Friday, Jan. 19. - Ten men present. Pull eight hundred strokes, and run one mile and a half. In trying to get their hands away from their bodies, in the recover, the men hurry the bodies forward: this makes the recover too quick. No part of the stroke is more difficult to acquire; it is one of the points in which English rowing differs from American, and is considered by Englishmen of great importance. Schwartz at present does the recover better than the rest of the men. No. 6 (W. M. Le Moyne) does not keep his back straight, "buckets," fails...
Monday, Jan. 22. - Twelve men present. Pull seven hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. In the absence of W. M. Le Moyne, Crocker pulled at "6." Brigham, who pulled "5" to-night, uses his slide too soon in the stroke, gets hardly enough body reach forward, and when he tries for more, is inclined to "bucket.' He does not shoot his hands out and pull them in on the same level, is inclined to pull them in too low, and goes back too far. Brigham is one of the strongest men that are trying, and pulls with more fire...
...subject of pecuniary aid to students, discussed by the President in his late report, is not entirely disconnected with other affairs in the College which it was not the business of the report to dwell upon. The fact that the present system of pecuniary assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar...