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...Columbia Bicycle Catalogue for 1890, which the Pope Mfg. Co., of Boston, New York, and Chicago has just issued, is a handsomely printed pamphlet of fifty-four pages, with lithographic frontispiece in water colors, and illustrated with forty-one wood engravings. In it are descriptions of the Ladies' Safety (new this season), Light Roadster Safety, Tandem Safety, Columbia Light Roadster, Expert, Volunteer, Semi-Roadster, and Racer Columbia Bicycles, and the Surprise and Columbia Tandem Tricycles. This catalogue, which is by far the most comprehensive of its class published, will be sent free upon application...
...very important that every man should get a perfect control of his body-a thing which was somewhat neglected last year. Mr. Keyes hopes that the slow, rather unpleasant work done at present will prevent the men from falling into bad faults when they get on the water and lay the foundation for rapid improvement late in the season...
Work on the rowing tank in the Cary building is being pushed as rapidly as possible. The wall to control the flow of water is being built...
...tank is divided into six longitudinal compartments. The floor of the middle ones, on either side of the boat, has been leveled and raised about six inches. The ends of the tank nearest the dressing rooms have been changed so as to divide the water and cause it to flow back on either side of the middle channels...
This change it is thought will enable the crew to get a sharper catch when they first get on the water and, it is hoped, will save the time that has formerly been wasted in putting snap and vim into the crew's work. These improvements will enable the crew to row from sixteen to eighteen strokes per minute right away, whereas formerly this rate was never attained until the latter part of February...