Word: sides
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...middle of last week. When they first got into their light boat they of course were at sea, but in the last few days they have made great advances. To be sure their form is very bad but that will make improvement easier. The oars on the starboard side have a strong tendency to get high off the water; number 7 especially might improve his rowing by lowering his oar a foot or two in the recover. Most of the men kick out their slides during the stroke and several (notably 4) hang at the finish. Yesterday they rowed...
...article on Classical Studies in America in a recent number of the Classical Review, Professor John H. Wright of Harvard acknowledges that the attention of classical scholars in this country is almost entirely devoted to the scientific side of language. They have a marked interest for points of grammar or of archaeology to the detriment of the literary study of Greek and Latin. In their annotated editions of authors they moreover confine themselves largely to servile imitation of German workers...
...classics, without having read one half of the Greek drama. Consequently he finds himself far behind English or German young men whose range of reading is enough to discourage the most energetic American student. This explains why lovers of Greek and Latin even yet invariably turn to the scientific side of the language, why foreign poets, critics, essayists and novelists know so much more about the classics than American writers, and why William Cranston Lawton is virtually the only literary Greek scholar in America today...
...strains equal. But in eight oars the outriggers are not opposite but alternate so that the strains put upon the stroke and bow oars are not balanced by any corresponding strains. As a consequence nearly every boat twists with use in such a manner that the port side near the stern and the starboard side near the bow are lowered, i. e. the boat assumes the shape of a screw. The cross bracing devised by the builders of the past year is simply a scheme to prevent this twisting. Mr. Davy's boat looks very well and if anything...
...Keyes '87 coached from a pair-oar which he steered. They went up a few hundred yards above the stonecutter's wharf at a stroke of 22 or 23 to the minute. The form of the crew was an improvement over their work on Tuesday, but the port side caught the water sooner than the starboard and the port men being more powerful the boat gave a vicious lurch to starboard every stroke. Yesterday the crew rowed up as far as the Brighton abattoir; Tilton rowing 6 and Watriss stroke. The disparity between the sides was diminished but the rowing...