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...remedy these faults each man in the squad will be required to row at least once a week in a single shell. The single rowing helps each man to calculate his individual effectiveness and teaches him to balance a narrow boat. Single rowing, then, will be a part of the week's routine during the fall practice...
...time made by the University crew was 20 minutes, 55 seconds, which is exactly the same as that made by the Yale crew last night. The shell was towed down-stream to the start at the railroad bridge, by the "John Harvard," the members of the crew being taken in the launch. At the start the crew went off at the rate of 36 strokes to the minute, but the stroke was soon lowered to 32 and this rate was maintained until the last half-mile of the course, when it was raised gradually to 40 at the finish. Taken...
Entries for the Carroll Cup single scull race, which has been postponed to Wednesday, May 19, at 5 o'clock, may be made with the janitor of the Newell or Weld boathouse up to 6 o'clock on Tuesday, May 18. If any two people are using the same shell, they must toss up for it immediately, and the man who loses must get another shell for the race...
...Stewart Shillito '79, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has presented to the University four-oared crew a new shell, which is at present being built by Davy at Cambridge. Mr. Shillito has always been interested in rowing, and he will this year assist in coaching the University four-oar. As an undergraduate he rowed in several six-oared and four-oared crews...
...over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin by about six lengths. The time of the University crew was 9 minutes, 54 seconds, and Columbia finished in 10 minutes, 13 seconds. The victory was a decisive one; after the first stroke , when the bow of the Columbia shell went a few inches ahead, the University crew led throughout. Early in the race it could be seen that Columbia had suffered from lack of practice, for the men were rowing more as eight individuals than as a crew...