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Contending man to man...
...Each man would rather die than yield...
...induce men to row because we have races. The matter is looked at in this light, and six men are trained for the crew while every one else in the class is left in blissful ignorance of the principles of rowing. The natural result is, that when any man of the six is obliged for some reason to leave the crew, those who are left are placed in a very unpleasant predicament. They are usually obliged to fill up the boat with raw men, and the crew is thus put back to a great extent. This is not a theory...
...case of accidents. With a crew of new men, such as the Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...
...prospects of the Juniors seem to be the brightest at present of any of the crews on the river. They have only one new man in their boat, and are backed by a promising second crew, which appeared on the river for the first time this week...