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DEAR SIR: The freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the Harvard Freshmen class to an eight-oared shell race, with coxwains, two miles straight away. The race to take place at New London within a week before the race to be rowed between the Harvard and Yale University crews. A more definite date to be settled upon hereafter. The challenge will remain open until...
...have proved our superiority over Englishmen during the past three summers in yachting. Why not try to vanquish them also in the shell? There is an impression among many that the English crews are superior to ours. This idea would probably be exploded if such a race could take place...
...things pertaining to his crew and its management. He is not called upon to do the work of two men-to row in the boat and coach his crew at the same time. Neither is he left to choose his men or assign them their places in the shell. But has not that been the case here for three years, or perhaps longer...
...whatever wind there was blew directly down the course. The tide, too, had turned, and everything seemed favorable for fast time, although it was hardly thought the record would be beaten. Harvard used her new English boat, about which so much has been said. Columbia rowed in a Waters shell...
...boat returned, half an hour later, the Columbia launch steamed up river again, towing the shell and carrying the crew back to their quarters. They row with a somewhat quick but very powerful stroke. They rowed their first mile - as long as they could be seen well from the quarters - with a good rate of speed on, and with about 36 strokes to the minute...