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Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
...first boat of the season appeared on the river yesterday afternoon. The new pair-oared shell, which Mr. Frank Peabody ordered in England, was tried for the first time by Mr. Peabody, Mr. H. W. Keyes and Mr. R. C. Watson. The shell is a beauty, made so as to set low in the water and with two pairs of sliding seats so that stroke and bow may row either on the port or starboard side. The coxswain's seat is finely upholstered. The boat was made by the well-known Cambridge boat-builders, Swaddle...
...ladies of New York interested in the Homeopathic College and Hospital of that city are to hold a fair during the week beginning April 2nd. At this fair is to be a "'varsity booth," and an eight-oared shell is to be voted to the most popular college. The shell has been ordered from Waters, the boat-builder, who agrees to furnish "a first-class eight-oared shell, latest model, for a crew averaging 150-165 lbs." The boat is to be "thoroughly seasoned, filled with latest improvements, hull to be commenced at once, the rigging to be subsequently fitted...
...Ladies' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York is soon to have a fair, in which an eight-oared shell will be voted to the most popular college. Waters of Troy is now building the shell...
...boat last season, has not commenced training, and says positively that he will not row this year. At present he is coaching the freshmen crew, the members of which take daily exercise on the rowing weights. At present no freshmen are trying for seats in the 'Varsity shell. The men run two miles every day and row from 30 to 40 minutes in the tank. Captain Stevenson thinks that the men are getting along well and that there is material enough for a fine crew. On March 1st the men will go to the training table...