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...large photograph by Perch of the University crew of '79 was put on exhibition in Leavitt Perch's window last week...
This spring the Oxford University crew experimented with a new set of oars, designed by the Rev. E. Warre. These oars after a peculiar fashion and their strangeness consists in their being much broader near the shoulder than at the extreme end of the blade. The advantage claimed for them is that the whole blade takes the water at once, instead of only a small corner of it-as is the case of some men with the oars now in use-also that the whole blade leaves the water at once, thus minimizing the chance of feathering under water...
...particularily easy in his manner on the bar and showed very chean and careful work. Osgood showed careful preparation in some of the minor parts of his exhibition but failed in the more difficult feats. While the horizontal bar was being taken away tht stalwart forms of the 'varsity crew appeared on the floor amid continued applause. The machines were all ready and the crew took their seats at once. They rowed in the order published on Saturday, except that Sawyer and Borland had changed places. Starting at a regular stroke, before they had finished Captain Perkins had increased...
...meeting this afternoon gives promise of a meeting which shall equal that of last week in brilliancy. The programme will be commenced promptly at 2.30, and a notice printed elsewhere says that men must be on time or lose their chance to compete. Besides the contested event, the University crew of 1884 will give an exhibition pull on the hydraulic machines, just after the horizontal bar contest. The crew will row in the following order...
Exhibition of rowing on the weights by the University crew...