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...THURSDAY.Board of Overseers. Adjourned meeting at No. 70 Water St., Boston...
...time and be present in large numbers, that the labor of the men during the winter and spring may be made manifest to the undergraduates before Saturday, when the crew goes to New London. Boating has always been the stand-by of Harvard athletics, and the contests on the water interests the non-collegiate world more than all the other athletic sports put together. Whoever, then, is not able to see the races, should be on hand this afternoon, that the Harvard crew of '36 may not be as unknown to him as that of Columbia or Yale...
...natural. Changes in the boats used, changes in the men's training, and changes in the distance rowed. The Oneida, which was the name of the Harvard boat used in '52, is described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet...
...sorry to hear that the freshman class is taking such little apparent interest in the affairs of their class crew. When the crew first got on the water a number of men used to go down to the boat-house, and encourage the members of the crew by their presence. Now there is scarcely ever a freshman at the boat-house outside the crew, and it is now more than ever that the members of the crew need encouragement and support. This year they are going to meet Yale as well as Columbia on the water, and will accordingly have...
...rumors of discontent and discouragement among the members of the Yale crew. It was only a couple of years ago when the same sort of trouble which is brewing now broke out, but the outcome of it was the best 'varsity crew that Yale had ever put upon the water. In spite of all these reports of the Yale crew being exceptionally poor at the present time, early in April many eminent boating authorities predicted an exceptionally good crew in every respect. Even with such a crew as Harvard has, we will be greatly mistaken if both races which...