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Lighter work was given to the Freshmen. In the morning the eight covered about one and a half miles, going easily, and in the afternoon went down stream two miles and back. In this boat numbers 3, 4, and 5 did not manage their slides well and the shell spaced poorly between strokes as a result. The Freshman four-oar rowed only a short distance in the morning but in the afternoon went nearly four miles accompanied by Coach Gill in his single scull...
...river at 6 o'clock and went down to the Navy Yard and back in short stretches, a distance of about four miles. The rate of stroke was kept as low as 26 all the way, and considerable attention was paid to blade work in the rough water. The shell spaced well and as a whole the crew rowed in good form...
...Monday the men will leave for New London with the four-oar and two substitutes. The new boat which Davy, the Cambridge boat builder has built for them, was tried but after a short row upstream the crew returned to the float and took out the English shell which they have been using all spring. The new shell requires some readjustment before it can be used...
However binding on the free mind orthodoxy may come to be, it contains the kernel of immutable truth. The resulting evils are caused by the emphasis of the non-essentials, the bare shell of the idea being emphasized to the exclusion of the true meaning...
...occupying the same seats they filled last year. Lunt, however, has gone to four and Faulkner has been shifted from three to bow. Morgan, now at three, rowed against Yale and Cambridge in 1906, but was a substitute last year. Consequently there are only two new men in the shell at present--Sargent and Bacon; they and Morgan fill up the three positions left by R. L. Bacon, Farley, and Tappan...