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...Harvard's Crew opponents will see action at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon when M. I. T. meets Princeton on the Charles River Basin course and Navy matches strokes with Columbia on the Harlem River. When Harvard opens its schedule next Saturday with M. I. T. the Engineers will have rowed two races, one of which ended in a sweeping victory over the Navy on the Severn last week. On May 18 the Crimson eight will face the crew from Annapolis on the Severn, having met Cornell on the Charles in the interim...
...struggle set for tomorrow will undoubtedly be a fierce one for the Technology crew is the best ever produced by the Engineers. These sweep-swingers, in their three length win over the Naval Academy, gained their first victory in nine years of rowing competition with the crews from Annapolis. No changes have been made in the seating of the Cardinal and Gray eight and the predommance of Sophomores and Juniors with the exclusion of former first string oarsmen predicts that Tech's opponents will find the going rough...
Four Seniors, two of whom are veterans of last year's first University crew, three Sophomores from the first and second Freshman eights of last season, and one Junior who rowed in the first boat in the Yale race last June comprise the first University eight which had its initial workout on the Charles River yesterday afternoon...
...Swaim '31 who was selected last Saturday to set the pace for the first crew is backed up by four heavy men, W. T. Emmett '29 at No. 7; F. A. Clark '29 at No. 6; M.M. Johnson '31 at No. 5; and A. N. Webster '31, who is pulling the No. 4 oar. Emmett and Clark have both had previous experience in first University crews, Johnson never advanced beyond No. 5 in the second Freshman crew last year, while Webster rowed at No. 7 in the first Freshman crew...
...positions in the bow of the boat are filled by L. W. Dickey '30 at No. 3, who rowed in the Yale race last year in the first crew, C. McK, Norton '29 at No. 2, who pulled a Jayvee oar last year, and James Lawrence, Jr, '29 at bow, who stroked the second University crew last spring...