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...junior crew will probably not begin training till after Thanksgiving...
...every stroke. At the finish the positions stood III., IV., I., II., III. winning by a half-length over IV. IV. finished, however, only a quarter-length ahead of I., and I. coming in a full length ahead of II. No time was taken. The rowing of the crews as a rule was very excellent, considering the total lack of experience, and it would seem from the indications of this race that a very fine crew might be selected from '86. The starters were Messrs. S. Kemp and Storrow. Judges at the finish, Messrs. G. M. Davis...
...Yale university crew have begun to take short practice pulls three days in a week. Some of the men have yielded to the loud cry for the crew men to play on the foot-ball team, and Captain Hull, H. E. Folsom, and W. H. Hyndman are now practising. There is no little criticism, however, by those who fear that the risk of accident to them endangers Yale's boating chances next year...
...candidates for the freshman crew are now using the rowing weights in the gymnasium...
Boating has, for the present, received a mortal wound. The crew last spring was a good one, and made good time, but ill-fortune attended it, and it only succeeded in coming in ahead of Cornell and Bowdoin at Lake George. Princeton, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, has a bone to pick with Columbia for not appearing at Philadelphia last June. But the sentiment here by no means justifies the opinions expressed in the University Magazine concerning the Harvard-Columbia dispute. To us, as lookers-on (perhaps not the best judges), the matter appears in a light very...