Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged to see his companions conversing...
CORNELL College has decided to organize and enter an eight-oared Freshman and a four-oared University crew at the N. A. A. O. college races. The four-oar will consist of W. Gregory, '80, stroke; J. Lewis, '80, 3; J. N. Shinkel, '81, 2; J. W. Warner, '80, bow. Twenty-five Freshmen are working for their class crew...
...seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates had the satisfaction of seeing the New London crew, with only one change in its complement, pull past the float with the same magnificent stroke that has won them their well-merited reputation. We are expressing the feeling of the entire college when we heartily thank the stroke and the bow of the '78 crew for coming to the rescue when the future of our rowing interests seemed so disheartening. Fortunately, the offer...
...toss, and chose the inside position. At four o'clock she pulled to the starting-point, and a few minutes later Harvard took her place. At 4:16 the word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased Harvard's stroke...
When the two-mile buoy was reached the steady stroke of our crew began to have its effect, and when No. 6 in the Cornell boat actually went to pieces, all thought that Harvard was sure of the race. But Cornell, encouraged by the cheers of the crowds of her friends along the shore, rallied wonderfully soon to recover her lost lead. At the finish she was four lengths ahead, her time for the three miles being 17 min. 13 3/4 sec.; that of Harvard...