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...last been selected. Early last November the candidates for the honor of a seat in the 'varsity eight, about twenty in number, were taken in hand and put at work in the gymnasium attached to the Columbia Grammar School. They were kept busy working at the rowing machines, chest and back weights and dumbbells. Five men soon dropped out, and the remaining fifteen men were put in boats under the coaching of R. C. Cornell, '74, of the crews of '73 and '74, and who coached the crew that went to England; Latham G. Reed, who was in Columbia...
...confusion; and amid a litter of clubs, dumb bells, and c., sits the famous crew. There is a pair of parallel pars at the end of the boat, and the stroke is always in great danger of being kicked in the head and having his eye-glass disarranged. The chest-weights take up one side of the room, and when in use, the men on the flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere that pneumatic machines have to be used by the oarsmen, instead of hydraulic. The air is noisome and damp...
Fourteen new chest weights have been set up in the gymnasium recently. They will be greatly appreciated by those who do not belong to any college team, and consequently do not get many chances to use the chest weights late in the afternoon...
There have been seven of the new iron chest weights put into the gymnasium...
...present the men practice batting, catching, and pitching, take short spurts on the running track for their wind, and exercise on the chest weights...