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...long eight-oared barges to get into position without buoys, The four senior eights started off fairly well together, and dashed by the boat-house at a great rate. The crews were well matched. As they spurted along, side by side, with the oars rising and falling in measured stroke and with great regularity, they formed a very pretty sight, which was enjoyed by hundreds of spectators from the boat house and the river banks. These crews, except a stroke oarsman for each eight, had been drawn by lot. By a strange chance, each of three of the crews...
...pressed closely after their rivals. The Crimson crew finished their second and winning heat a half length ahead, and then had wind enough left to indulge in an ear-splitting Indian yell called the "Crimson cheer." In the crew were Frye, '86, bow; Storrow, '87; Morrison, '87; Williams, '85, stroke; and Perkins, '87, coxswain. In the singles, Cabot, '86, rowing a long, sweeping stroke, won by about a length, in 1 min. 34 secs., with Harris, '86, second, and Brown, '86, third...
Keyes, '87, is now rowing stroke on one of the university eighths...
...Bowdoin crew for the intercollegiate four-oared race at Lake George next summer has been selected and the men are already hard at work. The crew will be Whittier, '85, (captain) stroke; Brown, '85, No. 3; Norris, '86, No. 2; Davis, '85, bow; Smith, '86, and Varney, '87, substitutes. A new shell will be ordered from Ruddock of Boston...
Second,-that no class crews shall adopt any other than the regular "Harvard" stroke...