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...FRESHMAN GLASS OF HARVARD: - The undergraduate freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the undergraduate freshman class of Harvard to a two-mile straight-away, eight-oared shell race, to occur at a time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...Davison, S. S. S., '88, is a good all around mile walker, and is pretty well assured of a place in this event at the games. Whether this place will be first or second it is impossible to tell at present. A pretty straight tip from one inside is that Davison is continually beating his own record, and that great things may be expected of him after a few weeks' skillful training and handling...
...power in his stroke. Bow is very stiff and jerky in his movements. He hangs on the finish. Downer rows with his arms bent, letting his slide go before his shoulders. He is rather stiff and makes a break between the time when he gets his legs out straight and when he begins to draw in his hands...
...full reach he swings down after he has slid out, letting his outside shoulder come forward. No. 7 starts fairly quickly, but he does not keep his slide under control and rushes down. He makes a break in the middle of his stroke after his legs are straight and before he pulls his hands in, so that there is no power in the middle of his stroke. No. 6 is slow in starting for ward. he lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish. No. 5 lets his shoulders fly up when...
...does so. No. 7 is slow in starting forward, and does not use his shoulders well, fails to row them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble is a lack of power and life in his stroke. No. 4 catches too hard, and then jerks...