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Boating men at Yale are enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. He weighs about a hundred pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...
Yale is enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. The college papers speak highly of his work, as does the New Haven Register. Speaking of the race between the freshmen and the Scientific School in eight-oared boats, the New Haven correspondent of the Boston Journal says: "Contrary to all expectation, the freshmen won their race. The freshman coxswain, W. B. Goodwin of Biddeford, Me., will stand a good chance for university coxswain. He has had some experience at Exeter and weighs about one hundred pounds out of training. He steered remarkably well in yesterday's race. After the experience...
...graduates is briefly this : (1.) The crew was sent to New London to row a race with Columbia, and it was the duty of the crew to stay till the race was rowed or forfeited to them. (2.) The race was unavoidably delayed by the death of the Columbia coxswain, but it was postponed by mutual consent to another day, subject to the same minor conditions which were to govern the first-named day. (3.) One of these conditions was that the race should be rowed upon a fair ebb tide, and this condition Harvard refused...
...senior eights for the scratch races have been drawn as follows: 1 - Capt. Burch, Perin, Lee, Hubbard, Blodgett, R. D. Winthrop, G. N. Jones, Gilman, coxswain, Sanger. 2 - Capt. Bryant, Belshaw, Baxter, O. S. Howard, Biddle, Sherwood, Hausen, E. A. S. Clark, coxswain, Davis. 3 - Capt. Storrow, R. P. Perkins, A. Keith, Bliss, Le Moyne, R. Howe, G. Keith, J. Mumford, coxswain, Whiteside. 4 - Capt. Hammond, C. P. Curtis, W. Mumford, H. G. Chapman, Walker, Cowdin, Sessions, S. Coolidge, coxswain, Baylies. The freshman eights are as follows: 1 - Hamlin, Ennis, Cabot, Smith, Barbour, Babcock, Weld, Fish, coxswain, Sanger. 2 - Guild...
...June 23d, Benjamin, Columbia's coxswain, was drowned, and it became manifestly impossible and improper for us to row next...