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Upon the plucky Freshman Crew...
...prove interesting. The eight begin their travels with a trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang...
...Senior Crew were in their shell for the first time this season, on Wednesday...
...HAVE heard that the Captain of the Sophomore Crew does not intend to stay here with his men during vacation, in order to keep them in training and improve their form, as the Captains of the other crews are going to do. The report may be untrue; but, if it is not, I, as a member of the Class of '82, wish to call the attention of the Class to it and also to show the Captain that there is a strong feeling in the Class that he ought to stay, even if he cannot get a complete crew...
...Harvard has beaten Yale three years in succession, the feeling is likely to prevail that the next race will turn the scales in Yale's favor, and it is this very point of which our crew need to be reminded. If the men are faithful and train properly there is really no reason why the same result should not be attained this year as formerly. Greater difficulties, it is true, must be overcome. The fact that Yale's crew have been on the water all the winter shows that they will leave no effort untried in order to bring victory...