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...already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...
...feet instead of four to keep her head above water. It was also there that she-and not, as some theorists would have it, the male-became the first to use implements purposefully. Envying the male's dagger-like fangs that he could use to crunch through shells, she picked up a pebble and managed to crack a shell with it. "She tried it again, and it worked every time. So she became a tool user, and the male watched her and imitated...
...unlikely, though, that it will ever be that way again. Too many crews, notably Northeastern, have had too much success with ergometers, foreign shells and German rigs to ignore any new developments in either rowing technique or equipment. After Pennsylvania's horrendous experiences with its new Pocock super-cedar shell this year, even the reliability of American equipment may become suspect. Unfortunately for American college coaches, and American college athletic budgets, it has frequently become a matter of innovate or be left three lengths behind...
Fortunately, Parker will have several instruments at his disposal at the Hanover camp that may make the selection process not only easier, but perhaps more accurate. There will be two ergometers--magical little contraptions that can indicate as closely as possible what an oarsman will do in a shell under actual rowing conditions. Harvard has used them for several years now, especially during the winter months, when the seem to be definite aids in separating a varsity oarsman from a spare. A number of coaches credit the ergometer--which resembles a rowing machine linked to a gearbox--with having created...
...Harvard's heavyweights used a Swiss-made Stampfli shell, rigged German-style, with the stroke and bow oars on the port side. By this Spring, almost everybody was using foreign shells with German rigs. Everybody, that is, except Navy coach Carl Ullrich. Ullrich's boys use a standard, American Pocock shell, rigged in the standard fashion, with standard American oars...