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...Harvard as well as at all other institutions of learning, there is a certain class of men who are known rather for their lack of brains than for any positive quality that they possess. The antics of these men are many and varied. Their nature is often displayed in their boisterous actions in the street, in recitation rooms and elsewhere, but at this period of the year, they seem to believe it their special province to do whatever they can to disturb the quiet and calm of the study-room, either forgetful that the examinations are approaching, or fiendishly taking...
...crews heretofore: - two or three hundred strokes on the machines, - exercise with the pulling - weights and a run up the Avenue. The men are doing as well as can be expected at this time of the year, - but as they are still at straight arm work, it is naturally rather difficult to draw any comparison with former freshman crews...
...three candidates for coxswain all seem excellent men, and a permanent selection will probably be rather difficult...
...following are a few individual faults: Stroke. Should be careful not to settle at the end of the stroke, as this combined with a rather perceptible hang makes it difficult for him to come right forward. Apt to hunch up his shoulders, especially the left, and fails to keep a good hold with his outside hand...
...talk at present about training the Yale crew of 1887 in these zero days when skating and tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water...