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...fault is a general lack of smoothness and continuity, all his movements being stiff and changing abruptly, instead of merging easily into one another. His stroke, too, like Jacobs's, has a marked lack of vigor. Legate, while faithful and strong, has some serious faults. The use of his slide is bad throughout, and, when forward, he doubles over his knees instead of opening them and letting his belly down between, which, by the way, would enable him with more ease to get a good reach. He settles at the end of his stroke, lets go of the oar with...
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...
Thursday, Jan. 18. - Thirteen men present. Pull seven hundred strokes. Run two miles. Mr. Dana "coached." During the past two weeks the men have improved on the "catch" and use of the slide. The shoulders "droop" at the "beginning," the backs are not kept straight, and above all the recovery is "ragged. The following men are now candidates for the crew: Legate, F. J. Le Moyne, Harriman, W. M. Le Moyne, Loring, Littauer, Schwartz, Jacobs, Brigham, Crocker, Preston, and Conlan...
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...
...alive to the responsibility of his position. It is for the rest of us now to make up our minds whether we will support him in his efforts to produce a winning crew, or whether we will betake ourselves to our cigarettes and let matters at the boat-house slide along as they can. Whichever course we choose, we should make known our decision at once. Let us either withdraw the challenge we have voted to send Yale, or wake up and refute such slanders as the one at the head of this paragraph...