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WHITE flannel trousers, instead of rowing drawers, are used by the English crews...
...carried a note-book with him on his travels, and took down observations on the appearance of the towns and country through which he passed, the customs of the people, and any peculiarities which struck him as worth preserving. These notes he afterwards embodied into letters addressed to an English gentleman, and published them in four large volumes...
...University Boat Club has decided to challenge the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race next March to a four-mile race over the English course...
...hard it sometimes is to adapt one's self to sudden changes is shown by the following conversation which took place in one of the English electives...
WHATEVER may be the respective merits of the Oxford and Harvard strokes, and whatever advantages Captain Cook's "adaptation of the English stroke" may possess, there is another question outside of these matters, - the question as to how an active interest in boating can be revived. The results of the races last May were not flattering to the much-extolled club system; the boats were filled with hastily collected, imperfectly trained oarsmen, that varied as much in ability and knowledge of rowing as a crew possibly could. The boating-men who were not in training for the "Varsity...