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...varsity boat. He stroked his freshman crew and occupied a position in the second eight during the two subsequent seasons. Paxton, a member of the junior class, is the most likely candidate for the position of stroke-oar. He stroked his freshman crew and was in the second shell last season. Of the other men, the most promising candidates are Walters, Duncan, Gardner, Taylor and Wintersten, all of whom have had experience on class eights...
...bright for beside Captain F. Parkman '19 there will be several members of last year's squad to form a nucleus for the crew. R. S. Emmet '19, who was stroke of the second crew when war was declared, has returned to College and will probably stroke the University shell this season. F. B. Whitman '19 and C. Canfield '19 are other members of last year's squad who will try for seats in the boat this spring. Among the members of the 1920 crew squad who will be candidates for positions on the University crew this year...
Moreover, a University shell is essential as an example to the Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...
...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
...regularly the last three or four nights, and so everyone took it for granted that they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security...