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This race is the classic of English collegiate rowing, and in the course of a discussion on the possibilities of the race, the rowing expert of the London Times dwelt at length on Lothrop's ability. He said that, "in the crew of the Oxford squad, the outstanding oarsman is F. Lothrop, who rowed at No. 2 in last year's Harvard eight which defeated Yale. He is well-built and works extremely hard. His arm work at the finish is good and when he has learned to combine his body and slide more perfectly, he should be a valuable...
That Harvard offers to the student less opportunity for what is commonly called "social life" in a narrow sense is obviously true. The hilarious mutual congratulation growing out of the coincidence that youths, seeking a classic education, buy soda water at the same drug store, and listen to the same lectures on architecture or biology, is less obstreperous than elsewhere. So far as I am aware, there is little, if any, of the kind of college life typified by the guitar with the blue ribbon and the felt flag bearing the name of Alma Mater in large white letters. Neither...
...regattas of the season-against Pennsylvania on April 16, against Columbia on April 30, and against Princeton and Cornell on May 21. All of these races are short, none of them scheduled for more than two miles, and Coach Nickals will make a big change before the four-mile classic against the University...
...each man should run threatened to result in a discontinuance of diplomatic relations. The humorists who claimed that they had only been training for two hours objected seriously to running more than a lap apiece; the scribes who had been training conscientiously for two months in anticipation of this classic event maintained that each man should run at least two laps and preferably three; the literary men, believing that discretion was the better part of valor, wisely refrained from expressing an opinion. As a compromise, Coach Bingham, decided that the distance should be a lap and a half...
Besides the race against Penn, Yale is scheduled to race twice before the annual classic on the Thames; against Columbia on April 30 and against Cornell and Princeton on May 21, the last one a week before the University meets the crew from Ithaca...