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Today, as is well known, the class races take place on the Charles River course. For months the four crews have been faithfully training for this event, and for months the college has watched with increasing interest the improvements which have taken place in the different crews. It is probably safe to say that seldom, in any class race, have the four crews been in better condition than they are at present. This is especially true of the three upper classes, who, from their longer experience in rowing, have a decided advantage over the freshman crew, which has, moreover, been...
...from the Brookline bridge to the Union boat-house, a distance of one and seveneighths miles. The races are always rowed with the tide; but as east winds are very common, very few races have been rowed on this course in less than eleven minutes. Last year the '83 crew won easily in 11.30 and the year before last '82 won in 12.43. The best record is 9.4, made by the '84 freshman crew in its race with Columbia...
...crews are all in excellent condition; they have undergone more proparation than in any previous year and are consequently rowing better. The freshmen have been in training since October; the sophomores and juniors, since December; and the seniors, since January. Until March all the crews were rowing the same stroke, but upon taking to the water, the seniors adopted a somewhat different one, which has been previously explained. They had soon learned it to perfection and were in racing condition two weeks ago, at the time of their race with the university crew. Since then, the other crews have also...
Agassiz has rowed in the class races for the past two years; Wesselhoeft has been with this class crew in all its races except the one with the Columbia freshmen, when he was unable to row. His place was taken by Bliss, who has since been in all the class races. Kemp and Penrose are new men, but have both had considerable experience in single sculling. Hutchinson has rowed in four races, Bryant in three, but not in last year's class race...
...race, but the latter has done more or less rowing in a pair-oared boat, and went out with the university eight last fall. Keith has rowed in three, Hansen in two races. Gilman was in both races in his freshman year, but was rowing with the university crew last year...