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...Varsity,' Mr. Bacon has been pulling stroke during the week, so we are led to conclude that a decision has been reached, and that he is to occupy that position permanently. If this is not the case, we beg to suggest that too much valuable time is taken in making the choice. Two months before the regatta is late enough to find our crew settled upon and hard at work, and where the strokeship lies between three or four men, it is not supremely difficult to make a choice. We are sorry to miss Mr. Taylor on the crew...
...other crews there have been some changes: Mr. Guild has been placed No. 5 in the Holworthy boat, on the retirement of Mr. Gould; Mr. Weld has been placed stroke of the Matthews Six, and Mr. Milton transferred to No. 3. The accident to Mr. Wetherbee on the foot-ball field will oblige him to give up his seat in the Holyoke boat. In another column we give the crews, with positions as correctly as we are able...
...Matthews Six, as arranged at present, consists of: Milton, '75 (stroke); Perkins, L. S. S., 2; Hastings, '75, 3; Patton, '77, 4; Weeks, '76,5; Prince...
...race came to grief on account of the roughness of the water. In making their landing at the Union Boat House, the Holyoke four swamped, much to the discomfiture of the coxswain. The Freshman crew was swamped some distance from the shore, and for a few moments the stroke of the crew, Mr. Littauer, not knowing how to swim, was in some danger. Mr. Morgan, who rowed number two, succeeded in rescuing him, and the rest of the crew reached the shore in safety. The Holworthy six had their boat seriously injured while the crew was landing...
...Yale Crew will remain very much as it was last summer. Four of the men will occupy the same seats in the boat: Cook, stroke; Kennedy, 2; Kellogg, 3; Brownell, 4. E. C. Cook and Fowler will fill the remaining places...