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...annual Harvard-Yale boat races will be rowed on the Thames at New London this year on Thursday, June 25. The race between the University eight-oared crews will be rowed upstream over the four-mile course, and will start at 5.30 o'clock from the New London railroad bridge, finishing opposite "Red Top." The race between the University four-oared crews will start at 10.30 o'clock in the morning and will be rowed downstream, probably from the Navy Yard to the New London railroad bridge. Directly after the finish of the four-oared race the Freshman eights will...
...were called out soon after the mid-year examination period, and, after a small amount of preliminary work in the tank at the University boat house, went out on the Charles for the first time on February 21, about a month earlier, than last year. The most difficult task was the selection of a stroke. At the beginning of the season, E.C. Bacon '10, and C. Morgan, Jr., '08 were considered the most probable candidates for the position, but in March Sargent was tried out and since the 28th of that month has been stroking the crew regularly. To fill...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 16, 1908-E. C. Cutler '09, was tried at 2 in the University eight today in the place of S. W. Fish '08. He rowed there both morning and afternoon and seemed to fit into-the place fairly well, although the boat did not run as well as it did before Fish was declared ineligible. In all probability Cutler will stay at 2 permanently...
Cutler had been stroking the University four-oared crew and with both him and Morgan out of the boat today a whole new port side was necessary. In order to select the men for these two places the crew was sent down into Kimball's Cove this morning, and F. A. Reece '09, and G. G. Bacon '08, tried at stroke, and S. A. Fahnestock '08, R. S. Lovering '08, and Bacon at 2. Coach Wray superintended the work from the rail road embankment...
Applications for tickets to the observation train at the Harvard-Yale boat race should be made on blanks obtainable at the office of the Harvard Athletic Association, and will be received from any graduate or member of the University until 5 P.M. next Friday. The applications should be addressed to H.S. Thompson, graduate manager of athletics, and should contain a check for $2.50. The tickets will be returned by registered mail if postage stamps to the amount of 10 cents are put on the addressed envelope. Tickets admit to a special Harvard car, but the seats are not reserved...