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...start will be made at 9.30 o'clock in the morning. Both crews have been in training for some time, and in a few weeks will appear on the Thames, at London. The Oxford crew is rowing on the Isis, but, according to reports, is in a sowewhat backward condition, and changes are made in the crew each day. Mr. W. W. Fletcher will coach the crew for two weeks, when he will be succeeded by Mr. B. C. Lehmay. Mr. D. H. McLean will give the men the benefit of his advice during the last two weeks. The Cambridge...
...along. He showed the best of judgment in running his team, and kept his head perfectly throughout the game. In the defense his tackling was the best on the field. It was always low, clean and hard, and it was very seldom that he did not throw his man backward. But it was as captain of his eleven that he did his best work. He kept his men up to their work and he imparted to them his own coolness and determination, in a way that a more experienced leader might well have envied...
...Harvard went out in one, two, three order. With a man on second in the ninth and one out Tenney knocked a high foul to Mason who cleverly caught it notwithstanding the attempts of the crowd back of Brown's bench, to rattle him by yelling. Frothingham's backward catch for the third out of Sexton's long drive to right field was the prettiest play of the game...
...crew is still greatly in need of financial support. The class has been backward all along. Even after the class races, which would naturally have led one to expect support, if ever at all, the condition has not been bettered. The management needs $1000 to defray the expenses at New London, $700 of which has yet to be raised before the crew can go. At present they hope to leave for New London about June 10, that is, if the expected money is forthcoming; otherwise they will have to wait perhaps another week and this would allow only a very...
...advantages of combination without its disadvantages by giving, - (a) A fairer division of fruits of labor - (b) A better and more economical management; New Nation II, 39.: Pop. Sci. Mo. XIX 402; Nation XXXVII 90 and 105; XXXVIII 136 - (c) Control of business interests to the masses; Bellamy "Looking Backward...