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...rather early to say anything about the form in which they row, for everything is done with straight arms and stationary seats...
...first crew rows better with the oars than without. The men in the bow have a slight tendency to catch the water ahead of the stroke. The crew, as a whole, do not use their stretchers enough and are rather slow at the finish in starting back...
...varsity crew has been rowing for so long that it is rather astonishing to hear that the Yale crew did not begin work till last Saturday. Captain Brewster, who rowed No. 3 on the crew last year, has taken charge of the men, and has been coaching them with the assistance of Stevenson, who captained the crew in '88. When the candidates met last Saturday, they started in with pretty hard work. The first crew, in which there was one of last year's men, rowed for nearly an hour. This crew was made up as follows: Stroke...
...course, pay more attention to the pictures of men taken now, when he has plenty of time at his disposal, than he can to those pictures which are taken during the busy season just preceding class-day. It is then clearly to the advantage of Seniors to sit now rather than at any later date...
This evening Professor Royce gives the twelfth lecture in his course on "Modern Thinkers." There are now but two lectures left; one on "The Philosophy of Evolution;" one on 'Optimism and Pessimism." The first is of a nature to interest a rather large and varied class of students, so far as the subject is concerned; whilst the other is especially popular in the method of its treatment and could in the main be understood by itself without reference to the preceding series. The former of the two is the lecture for this evening; it should call forth a large attendance...