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...deal in daily. If they mean a lease of a larger building, which they have already decided against, I can refer them to a reputable real estate broker of Cambridge who told me today that he would be willing to sign a lease with the present Society for any length of time. Further, the present Society can surely buy goods either for cash or on credit, for all modern business is largely done on credit and not on legal liabilities, as the directors would have us think. The majority directors hint at some future indefinite difficulties for the Society. Among...
...coached them in starting forward quickly on the recover. When they tried to row all eight, the boat was very unsteady and did not seem to travel well. In a quarter-mile brush with the second on the way down-stream, the second crew beat the first by a length, while rowing the same stroke. In a considerably longer stretch, around the bend to the boat-house, the first had the inside of the curve and finished hardly a length ahead. This weak showing is partly attributed to the fact that the first was using last year's Freshman shell...
...bridge and back in unchanged orders. Both eights rowed in short stretches to the Longwood bridge, under the coaching of Mr. Higginson. Here the crews were started for a mile stretch down-stream. At first the second crew drew ahead until they led the first crew by half a length, but when both eights put the stroke up slightly, the first gained again, finishing even with the second...
...mile stretch back to Longwood bridge the second crew quickly gained three-quarters of a length but in the last eighth of a mile the first put up the stroke and finished half a length ahead. The second crew was then sent ahead to the boat house and the first was coached on the way up stream by G.S. Mumford '87. E.C. Storrow '89, as well as Mr. Higginson...
...reaching the boat house the crews exchanged shells in order that the relative speed of the two boats might be tested. In the two half-mile stretches that followed, each crew won a brush, leading in each instance by about half a length...