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Crews A and B left the Shawmut boat club shortly after 5 o'clock with Coach Muller in the coxswain's seat of the seconds. The water of Fort Point Channel was eceptionally smooth and free from floating ice, an unobstructed stretch of nearly a mile being available. The two crews paddled side by side over the first mile matching each other stroke for stroke. After this preliminary spin Coach Muller took the second eight down stream for half a mile and sent the first crew back over the half-mile upstream course. Over two miles were covered altogether...
...Reginald Heber Howe, long associated with Middlesex School, and coxswain of the Harvard University crew in 1899-1901, was appointed director of rowing, and supervised on the river not only of chiefly the candidates for crews but all students who rowed for exercise. The importance of his positing may be inferred from the fact that 422 men had lockers for rowing last year. The supervision of nearly 700 oarsmen, or would-be oarsmen, and their equipment is a serious and complicated matter to which Dr. Home gave himself with scrupulous care and with gratifying results...
...points particularly stressed during the meeting was the necessity of all coxswains adhering strictly to the rules regarding rowing on the river. With the large number of shells now, in use the question of making room for all presents a problem of some importance at present, and Dr. Howe made it clear that it was in this respect that the functions of a coxswain played a necessary part...
...coxswains of all crews, University, Class and Freshman, will meet this evening at 7.15 o'clock in Smith Halls Common Room. Dr. Howe, who was coxswain of the University Four-Oar when in college, will speak to the men about their positions and duties...
Coach Corderry made several shifts in the Eli crews yesterday afternoon after taking both his eights for a short row as coxswain. The final seating announced is as follows...