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...different positions than they have been rowing. Mr. Lehmann and Mr. Willis rowed seven and stroke respectively in both crews to get the men back of them swinging in the right cadence. Captain Goodrich's crew rowed with two men added while the two Englishmen were in the other boat. Both crews rowed in shells and were made up as follows...
...intermission Coach Forbes led a cheer for Yale. Cheers were given for the eleven, for Cabot, and for Forbes, when the eleven went out, and after the concert was over. Mr. Lehmann was also cheered, and made a short speech in which he denied the statement that Englishmen could teach American universities courtesy and good feeling...
...Physically, the men are a fine powerful lot, fully as strong and well developed as the Englishmen who form the two university crews. They have not had the same racing experience as their English cousins, but this disadvantage may be to some extent counteracted by the longer preparation which they will have to undergo for this particular race, and by racing against scratch crews in the later stages...
Lest some may be deterred from attending these lectures of Dr. Dorpfeld on account of slight knowledge of German, it may be well to repeat the common remark of those who have heard him, that "his German is easier to understand than many Englishmen's English...
...Yale with much success, and a like series of lectures here cannot but be of great interest and value. The fact that the lectures will be given in German should not keep any one from attending, for as the announcement says "his German is easier to understand than many Englishmen's English." That the lectures may be the easier to understand, an English synopsis of the ground to be covered in them will be distributed through the audience...