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CAPTAIN NORTH of the Freshman Crew has not received the telegram which the Cornell Era declares to have been sent...
...favor of New London. The latter course is undoubtedly the better for us, and probably the cheaper for both parties, so that we should be glad if Cornell could be brought to see its advantages; but if she persists in favoring Saratoga, we shall certainly not support our Freshman crew for refusing to meet her there. The challenge stated that "time and place" were "to be settled hereafter." If our crew were willing to row nowhere but at New London, they should have said so distinctly. Our advice to them now is, to row under the best conditions they...
...fair prospect of our having two interesting races. The single-sculls will attract no little attention, and the Union and Harvard four-oars ought to make a good race. It is a matter of regret, however, that none of the associations challenged is willing to send a six-oared crew. The race which it was hoped would take place, May 25, between the six of the winning club and the amateur sixes, will be given up, therefore; but that is no reason for neglecting practice for the club races assigned...
...Oxford crew, although lighter, is said to be much the faster, and rows in better form than the Cambridge crew, which pulls too short a stroke, feathers badly, and is quite slow...
...York Times of March 16 prints a letter on boating at Harvard, which contains statements that are very unjust to the gentleman who has lately been coaching the Freshman crew. The writer of the letter states that, though the Freshman crew is now being coached by Mr. Warren Goddard, '79, he will soon have to be replaced by some one who has had more experience in boating. In the very next sentence he laments the fact that, without a coach, the crew is doing but poorly, which is just another way of saying that Mr. Goddard's work amounted...