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...summer weather...
...captain of the Yale University crew proposes to put two six-oared crews into practice, from which he can select the eight to row Harvard next summer. A race will probably occur between these crews in two or three weeks...
LAST June we entertained an angel unawares. He came from the "University of Wisconsin," and he writes about us to the University Press as follows: "I was struck, as every visitor must be, with the solid intellectual calibre of the professors, but I suppose the summer sunshine and the approaching close of the year's work was having its inevitable effect on the students; certain it is, the recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them...
...give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than to tell us all what they think. Then from many plans we may select the best, and the crimson next summer may possibly come up ahead of the blue...
...crew who rowed in the Springfield and Saratoga races last summer there are but two now working. Of the last Freshman crew the captain alone has at this time definitely decided to row. Of the other candidates, two only ever rowed in a shell race, and this a Freshman race, two years ago. Moreover, the majority are under-sized men. The most superhuman captain, with such material to sustain him, could not make our chances brilliant...