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EDITORS MAGENTA, - In view of the new boating-system at Harvard, you asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed...
...may write to you again, in relation to the "trial eights," an important feature of our boating-system. Till then, I can only say, "Tub, if you wish good oars...
...replied, "we will not travel merely for novelty and excitement. A newly fledged graduate, though, doubtless, the noblest work of God, may yet be improved. By travel, mind and judgment are matured, ideas broadened, the taste educated...
That, refreshed, we may join the great stream of the world...
...Boston, have the privilege of forming our own conceptions of heaven and bliss. Do not disgust all the educated with these caricatures of a future life. Or, if the pulpit's elevation does convince its occupant that he can see a little farther into the realms of the unknowable, may he seek to picture it in the scholarly way that does not confound the gratification of the sensual appetites with the stimulation of the noblest powers of our higher nature...