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During the recess Messrs. Brewer and Maverick, of the Harvard Bicycle Club, took a trip on the wheel to Portsmouth, N. H. They made the distance in one day and returned the next...
Winslow, '85, has been unable to pitch during the recess on account of a severe attack of rheumatism...
...recess has been profitably employed by the crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress...
...good rowing weather prevailed during the greater part of the recess, the crews were enabled to get in a good week's practice, rowing twice a day up to last Saturday, when all except the sophomores laid off for a three days' vacation. All the crews have rowed in their barges except the seniors, who took to shell rowing Tuesday, April 3, using their old twisted shell; they will probably go into their cedar sometime this week. Several short brushes have taken place between the crews, the most noteworthy of these being the one between the Juniors and Freshmen...
...freshmen have made rapid improvement during the recess, and the result of their spurt with the juniors on Saturday has served to raise them in the estimation of boating men. In general the form is good for a freshman crew, the swing is uniform and the catch hard and well together; they pull a long stroke, and the oars fall together, but are not pulled clear through. Stroke is rowing in excellent form and bids fair to be an oar of some promise. No. 7, however, does not back him up well. No. 5 slivers out badly...