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...Hillsdale crew has landed at Portsmouth and started for London...
...have already reported to our readers the observations of the N. Y. Herald on the three university crews. The following concerning the same subject from the Tribune will undoubtedly be of interest Of Columbia a correspondent writes : "Taking the men in boating costume, it must be confessed that they do not strike one as a burly, rugged-looking set. They are not the sort of men that the 'Aggies' sent out in '71, that gained the prize for Amherst in '72, that carried the blue and white in '74, or that gained laurels for Harvard...
...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...
Complaint is made of the oppressive secrecy preserved by all at Yale with regard to the crew. Of the new boat it is said : "There has been a dreadful mystery hanging over this boat. No one except members of the crew has been allowed to see it and all information in regard to it has been kept profoundly secret. Under-classmen have refrained from talking about it lest they might become disliked. A portion of the boat-house has been divided off from the rest by a partition and a very small door with a very large lock has been...
...individual faults of the crew it is not easy to speak, because the range of observation from the boat-house is exceedingly limited. The general impression is that they row raggedly. 'We don't care how ragged they row,' said an enthusiastic student standing on the veranda of the boat-house, 'if they get that boat over the line first we are satisfied.' That is the way the whole college seems to feel. Yale has labored throughout the year under the disadvantage of having no regular coach. One of the members of the junior class has followed the crew...