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...Freshman Crew left Monday, July 1, for Owasco Lake...
...second time since we have been connected with this paper, the pleasant task devolves upon us of expressing our thanks to the Crew and the Nine for the double victories they have won for the honor of Fair Harvard. We felt confident our Crew would win a victory at New London, but such a victory was considered hardly within the range of possibility. Complaints are made that the race was not close enough to be exciting, and that it is a pity Yale did not have a stronger crew. The race, to be sure, afforded little excitement to the average...
...wanted to, I might have kept secret a good many things I learned in England. They tried down at Cambridge to build an eight at Blakie's shop, but Blakie was not equal to the job, and his boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew was in practice. I might have kept the secret in New Haven if I wished, as Keart could have built us, and can build, a good cedar eight. But what is the use of being selfish? What I have done has improved boating, and I am glad...
...split from stem to stern, but two years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces in a New Haven boat-house...
...Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing 32. At the beginning of the second mile Yale gained about a length on our crew by pulling 34 to the minute, but lost it before the end of that mile. The Harvard crew did not pull a faster stroke at this point, but they pulled a stronger one. The third mile saw Harvard pulling 36 to the minute, and Yale, four lengths behind...