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...members of the Columbia crew are in active training. They pulled over the course yesterday, and their style of action was much admired by aquatic critics. The Columbias this year are a fine-looking set of young men, modest, unassuming, but hard, earnest workers...
...have girded on their armor and are going into actual battle;' they 'have served their apprenticeship and are ready to take up the labor of life.' Now, if the battle and labor of life mean, which they generally do, to earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even if a lad's father have money enough to keep him from the necessity of work, and his business life be simply the gentlemanly arts of helping to manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary...
...race of last Saturday has shown the freshmen that they still have hard work before them to put themselves in a condition to defeat their Columbia opponents on the Harlem. There is good material in the boat, but it seemed to a spectator that their stroke was too jerky to enable them to preserve their form. But they have still some time before them, which, if utilized to the utmost, will go far toward enabling them to win the approaching race. They probably receive their defeat of last Saturday in the proper spirit, and so far from being discouraged, will...
...certainty for either crew, and, although Harvard has a very decided advantage in the matter of weight, which years of experience has proved to be an important factor in the decision of eight-oared races, Columbia offsets that with a much smarter and more taking stroke. A hard race may be expected, especially if, as is likely to be the case, Columbia shows in advance early in the struggle...
...caused the 'Varsity to work a little more. When the Providence crew ceased from their spurt the freshman coxswain urged on his men, who for a while made a beautiful race for second place, but were soon compelled to yield to the better form and beef of the now hard-pushed Narragansetts. The 'Varsity rowed at their ease until nearing the end, when they spurted in a beautiful manner with 40 strokes to the minute and crossed the line in 11 min. 30 sec., the Narragansetts 29 seconds behind them, and the freshmen 6 seconds behind the latter...