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...show a decidedly greater interest in the task before them. This good result will surely be followed by others of equal importance. The work now being done is light in comparison with what will be required after the mid-years. At present the crew content themselves with a short pull of about three hundred strokes and a run of half a mile and back up the avenue, beside going through the first course on the chest weights. This amount of work will be gradually increased until the semis are over, when the crew will be ready to settle down...
...University Crew took their first practice pull in the gymnasium yesterday, rowing only one hundred strokes. The following-named men occupied the places: Stroke, Curtis; 7, Clarke; 6, Hammond; 5, Belshaw; 4, Gilman; 3, Cabot; 2, Hutchinson; bow, Mumford. Cabot filled Perkins' place temporarily, owing to the latter's illness. Sawyer probably will not begin to row for some time...
...rows short and does not pull his hands in high enough. His back and shoulder work is fair, while as a general thing his arms are kept straight and rigid...
...Yale crew take an easy pull almost every day, although the men are not yet in training. F. Rogers will probably take Storrs' place as starboard stroke, and No. 3 will be the seat left to be filled...
...then held. Balls, parties and social meetings fill up the week. He who should suggest the abolition or curtailment of either of the university carnivals, says a recent writer in Chamber's Journal, would be regarded as a revolutionary innovator, no less dangerous than if he had proposed to pull down "Tom Quad," or to let out as building-plots the university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur at this time are thus described by the same writer: Though the pleasure is largely dependent on genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers...