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...strokes to the minute, and spurt up to 40; but it is improbable they will row faster than 38 strokes to the minute on the 30th of June. As a whole, they are a very promising crew, and show signs of good coaching and training. They leave for Springfield next Thursday...
...Springfield citizens' committee on the Harvard-Yale race has been organized, with L. J. Powers as president, R. O. Morris, secretary, D. J. Marsh, treasurer, and the necessary sub-committees...
...authorities at Springfield will be asked to do for the Regatta about the same as has always been done at Saratoga. They will be asked to have the course accurately surveyed, and buoyed at start and finish, before the arrival of the crews, and to agree to keep it clear of boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready...
...final arrangements between Yale and Harvard as to the coming University boat-race at Springfield have been completed. Two judges from each college and a member of the Regatta Committee are still to be appointed, and after that we shall be able to give all our attention to the crews themselves. A position on the Regatta Committee is so full of work and responsibility that it is absolutely necessary that the right man be chosen for the place. There must be no mistakes this year in the management of the race. The demands that have been made of the city...
...E.COMPARING our present University crew either with the crew that rowed at Springfield in '73, or the crew that pulled at Saratoga in '74, one sees that they differ in many ways. Many of the men who are to represent us this summer are not as large and do not appear as powerful as their predecessors; yet the comparison is on the whole favorable to the present representatives. The change in the manner of training a university crew has been almost as marked in the last three years as the change between the time of our earliest boating experience...