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...supper in order to try the rigging. At present the crew is made up in the following order: Stroke. Glidden; 7, Bond; 6, Shea; 5, Waters; 4, Fay; 3, Blake; 2, Thompson; bow, Loring. Substitutes, Johnson and Williams. This is strong crew and ought to row fast. The worst fault in the crew work is the bad break...
...last quarter mile the Bowdoin crew presented a remarkable sight, each man appearing to row without regard for the other seven and all slogging. On the last mile Harvard, on the other hand, got well together and exhibited remarkably smooth blade work. The only fault of the crew as a whole seemed to be a lack of drive with the legs...
...Zimmerman, N. Y. A. C., second; 2d heat, Murphy, N. Y. A. C., first, time 2 min. 54 2-5 sec., J. Clark, C. B. C., second. Taylor, while spurting around the bend in the last lap, fell, partly through a foul and partly through his own fault, but the referee allowed him the ride in the final heat. This event was a decided farce. For two laps the men loafed. At the beginning of the third lap the third lap the speed was quickened; the men finished, Murphy, N. Y. A. C. first, time...
...character less strong than usual, although both of the two poems are far from mediocre. "Two Ships" has much of the poetic in it and the simile of the poem is apt. The strength which it possesses is somewhat crude and several lines are marred by bad accentuation, a fault noticeable in the author's "Sonnet," published in the Advocate some weeks ago. "To L. M.," is not so good as some of the verse Mr. McCulloch has written but it is a pleasant fancy and its poetry mirrors the sentiments of many men at this springtime season...
...Brown's chief fault was an indistinct pronounciation. He was very energetic but his selection was a little heavy...