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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:- It is to be regretted, that the sophomore crew found it necessary to follow the bad example of the seniors of rowing twice a day. In self defence, the junior and freshmen crews will soon be forced to do likewise, and thus a foolish custom will be established. Rowing men will be obliged to neglect all studies during a month before the class races. Heretofore, rowing but once a day, it has been found more difficult for an oarsman to keep his place in his class than in his boat. When two rows a pay are taken...
...point of fact, I already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were in 1883, and therefore they need but little instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult...
Under the present condition of things it is my belief that an average Harvard or Yale crew can defeat the average Oxford or Cambridge crew. If we were as faithful in our discipline and training we would have more than an equal chance...
...previous races. The six men were as though molded into one, operating like the works of a well-regulated clock, in perfect unison and harmony. The result was a conservation of force, previously unknown in a boat. The test was a fair one in every respect. With a crew physically inferior to that of the preceding year, we easily defeated ten crews equal to those that rowed the year before...
...resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily both years. In the face of the fact, however, that nothing in the world but an excellent system had given them the prestige during those two years, Yale in 1882 and '83 employed M. F. Davis, a professional oarsman, to coach...