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...junior crew has had few changes since reaching the water. The stern four has maintained the same order for the last month. Brewer has been moved from No. 2 to No. 4, and several men have been tried at No. 2. Mumford '87 coached the crew from the launch yesterday. The order was: Stroke, Kales; 7, Forbes; 6, Stillman; 5, Derby; 4, Brewer; 3, Fairchild; 2, Frothingham; bow, Mann...
...regular coaching lately and they show the need of it badly. Last week Mr. Watson gave them some attention, but now that the freshmen have come out on the river he has no time for this. Kernan has done some coaching from a pair-oar and from the stern of the boat. The crew had been rowing until yesterday with full slides but they have now gone back to strapped seats. The time yesterday was very ragged...
...crew will race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...
...little improvement. The men row a fast and powerful stroke, but they are inclined to be careless and their time is poor. Dunlop, at four, causes the worst break in the boat, and Chatman and Gleason, are not up to the standard of the rest of the crew. The stern four, however, row fairly well, and without any noticeable break in time...
Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...