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...following are trying for the Holyoke crew...
...unusually heavy expenses of last year - five new boats being required, and the crew being kept in training for two races - have left us a debt of about twenty-six hundred dollars. Thirty-five hundred has been this year subscribed. Of this, all that has been yet paid in has gone, with one hundred dollars from other sources, to pay off the debt, which has been thereby reduced to about one thousand dollars, - an amount still sufficient to swallow up nearly all that is likely, as experience has shown, to be collected from the subscription-list. The crew will thus...
Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...
...hastily constructed and hastily forwarded, and reached Saratoga twisted and unfit for use. There were many repairs to be made, and all too little time for practice; and during the race an accident occurred, arising from this hasty construction and lack of time for repairs, which seriously affected the crew's time, and, there is good reason to suppose, their position. The value of the assistance was almost nullified by the delay with which it was given. Let it be this year realized that the English boat will cost the same, whenever it is bought, and that, ordered...
...candidates working this week have been: Harriman, Legate, and LeMoyne, '77; LeMoyne, Littauer, and Loring, '78; Brigham, Conlan, Crocker, Weston, and Schwartz, '79. Harding, '78, has given up trying for the crew. Smith, '79, has not yet returned. Jacobs, '79, it is said, has once more made up his mind to try for the crew, but has not appeared at the boat-house this term...