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...Boston papers, that the Law School of Boston University has in training a crew which intends in the spring to challenge a crew from our Law School...
...your chair, lighting cigarettes and mentally declaring that this sort of thing is unbearably slow. You look at your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that...
...when it has trebled in numbers, and when the course is no longer in New England. That is to say, a few gentlemen of the class of '71 have bound Harvard irretrievably for an indefinite time to come, or at least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since she can hardly expect to send better ones than these. "And, after all, it is strange that Harvard should wish to row again with Yale alone, against whom she has made so many charges of foul play...
...have heard it stated that one of the Ward brothers happened to reside near Ithaca last spring, and that the Cornell crew pulled the Ward stroke at Saratoga. If the Era would resolve this seeming causal connection into one of mere antecedent and consequent, our mind would be at rest...
FROM the Captain of the University Crew we have received the following information concerning the relative merits of eight-oared boats and six-oared. He considers the former better for the following reasons: The greater weight of the eight-oar makes the stroke longer, and although as much force may be expended in taking the stroke as in the six-oar, yet the quick motion of the body is avoided; and since this start "pumps" a man and drives the blood from the heart, it is an advantage not to be estimated too highly. Again...