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Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock Dr. Howe sent his two University crews over the one-mile basin course in their first test of the season under the new seating conditions. In this race the eights were boated the same as last Thursday with the exception of S. N. Brown '24, stroke of the Junior crew, who was replaced by E. S. Matthews '23. So close was the choice that no definite decision could be made between them, the final position resting on the toss of a coin...
...Monday, test matches to determine what men go on the southern trip will begin. Seven men will comprise the team, and as yet no one has been selected. The trip will last the entire spring vacation...
...results of this test that Dr. Howe and the coaches will to a large extent base their selection of graded crews tomorrow. However, it has been intimated very strongly that the members of the losing boats will be placed under no handicap, and that each oarsman will receive equal consideration for a berth among the first Freshman eights. The principal object of the race this afternoon is to give the coaches a definite idea of the relative merits of the crews as units, as well as allowing the men a last opportunity of proving their individual capacities under race pressure...
Following the plan adopted earlier in the week of pitting the winners of the first two days' contests against one an-other in a final test, A. C. M. 1 and 3, E. F. M. 1, and I. F. M. 1 will compete this afternoon on the Basin. The race will be over the mile distance, ending at the Harvard Bridge, and is scheduled to start at 3.30 o'clock...
...subject; to be sure, a grasp of the details is necessary to any conception of a whole, but the latter make easier the mastering and proper emphasizing of detail. And so it would be practical to place more emphasis upon the division examination, which is designed to test the student's command of a whole subject. The warding of distinction or honors might well be made, throughout the division, on the demonstration of knowledge and intelligence made in the general examination and in the thesis. Obviously the man who has done poor work would not win honors...