Word: wateringly
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...cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper. In this way a record is kept of every stroke...
...other men nothing need be said for they have all been coached on the same things and all have had the same faults often before. It looks somewhat as if we were to have an early spring and it may be that the crew will be rowing on the water in a couple of weeks...
Jones '92, 5, 163. Rowed in class crew and substitute on the 'varsity. Slow at catch and finish. Does not get his oar into the water with snap...
...Harvard, Yale and Columbia freshmen rowed a three-cornered race in which the Yale Freshmen, getting into the roughest water, sank, and the Harvard crew won with some ease over Columbia. The fact that one crew sank gave rise to the opinion that the course was unfair for three crews. Whether this opinion is still prevalent is hard to say. The Harvard boat club is considering the challenge and will reply in a few days. A challenge has already been sent by our freshmen to the Columbia freshmen...
...outsider." But if the "outsider" outclasses your friend as an oar it is a college crime to reject him. Still with all I have heard of the methods of selecting crews at Cambridge I have no fear of the crew. Indeed "the finest crew Harvard ever put on the water" has become quite as familiar to us of late as have defeats...