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...Columbia freshmen have decided to accept the challenge of the Harvard freshmen in preference to that from Yale, since it has seemed advisable to row but one race. The men, sixteen in number, have been training hard in Wood's gymnasium since January 1. Last Monday, for the first time, they took the water, under the direction of their temporary coach, C. K. Beekman, '89. Little attention is given at present to speed, and the men are busy learning how to handle the oars and practising the body swing, There are two provisional crews now rowing, one composed of candidates...
Work has been begun at the armory in New Haven in preparation for the winter games which take place Friday and Saturday of this week. The track will contain sixteen laps to the mile, the finish being in the northeast corner of the building. A fifty-yards track has been laid out diagonally across the floor. A large number of seats have been reserved. It is expected in New Haven that Harvard will send a strong team to compete in these games...
...present trying for the crew, which is to represent their college and class at New London, have been at work sixteen weeks. During these weeks long walks have been taken and sharp runs, together with work on the chest-weights, and an increased number of strokes on the rowing-weights. Of the forty men who started in, the sixteen who remain are in much improved condition, and as a crew have made a gain of from 3 to 4 pounds. The men are rather lighter than the average freshman candidates, but as weight is not the most important requisite...
Alexander, '87, has been coaching the freshman crew during the last two weeks. Sixteen men are now in training for the crew...
...following is quoted from the speech of ex-Captain Rogers, of the Yale crew, at the dinner of the Hartford Alumni: "There are sixteen men in training for the crew, of whom four are veterans, and their motto is, to put it forcibly, 'Lick Harvard or Bust...