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...essays must not exceed in length the amount of twenty-five pages of the North American Review...
...start was ridiculously unfair. The Crescents started long before the word-which was given, by the way, while a number of the 'Varsity eight were taking off their jerseys. The water was very rough-all the crews splashing badly. At the Crescent boat-house, Harvard was a length ahead, which it increased to three lengths at the finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other...
...regatta committee has decided upon the men who shall represent the University in the race with Yale. The crew has rowed for no length of time together, and consequently, are in poor form. This lack of experience and practice will be done away with by the day of the race. The men, individually are all good. They...
...sliding seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...
...registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...