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Since the arrival of Mr. Lehmann the crew has been working very hard, rowing fast stretches every afternoon, though they have not as yet gone over a mile and a half when they were rowing their hardest. Yesterday afternoon they rowed a five minute stretch, but did not stay out quite as long as usual owing to the fact that today they will go over a four mile course on time...
...prospect for a fast crew is as good as it usually is at this time of the year...
...certain that in this century the theory of an evolutionary method of some sort in this universe has taken fast hold upon thinking men. Especially is this the case as to the life of man as man upon our planet. While a quiet evolution is easily seen in laws and political institutions, a more violent process is no less evident. So far the progress of man has been, far more than we could have wished, by catastrophies...
...University for rowing he expressed his surprise that so few should take up the sport. In the English universities a very large percentage of the students go in for rowing whether they make their college crews or not and one reason that the Cambridge and Oxford crews are so fast is that they are the pick of such large numbers of men. Every move toward introducing this condition of things at Harvard is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction...
...fast disappearing from the river and provided the weather continues warm the crews ought to get on the river within the next two weeks...