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...training very systematically. After running a mile or two they work half an hour on the weights and row ten minutes on the machines. This has been going on for some time, and the good effects of hard work are beginning to show themselves. Of course, freshmen can learn little of rowing on the machines, but what they have accomplished gives promise that they will very quickly turn into good oarsmen when once they row on the river-this they expect to do in about two weeks...
...very advisedly termed-that is to say, of going in a boat-has led to the formation of a host of third, fourth and fifth rate clubs, as well as to an enormous amount of rowing in hired boats by people who think they would like to learn the art all by themselves. Now, rowing is, of all things, that which a man finds most impossible to learn by himself. There is nothing, perhaps, in which unaided practice is so certain to make a man develop a bad style. If any person doubts this, let him look at the River...
About a year ago experiments were begun at the request of U. S. Signal Service by Prof. Trowbridge on the subject of atmospheric electricity with a view to learn its value for meteorological purposes. The method employed was that known as the Thompson one and required very delicate instruments. The result is that a beam of light from a gas flame is reflected from a mirror upon a prepared sheet of sensitried paper and the record of any change in the place of an electric needle is thus obtained by photography. The apparatus in use has several new points...
...that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were in 1883, and therefore they need but little instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult, for they are so firmly set in their old ways that it will be double work to instill the new method into their minds. The system I advocate is essentially English, except...
Bicyclists will be pleased to learn that by a recent decision of the attorney-general of the United States that hereafter bicycles will be considered as personal effects, and as such will be admitted free of duty when accompanied by the owner. This will enable riders to get machines in England and bring them over much cheaper than they can buy them in this country...