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...better so, they do not object to a slight curve of the shoulders. In the management of the slide, too, there are some differences. The Americans start their slides very fast, then slow them up about half way, and gradually come to a full stop. The Englishmen get their hands away very quickly, but slide forward slowly...
...present. Even in the church the largest purse secures the best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible to reach. All that was honest was unnatural and existed only in poetry...
...match with the winner of the Harvard-Yale race. He does not wish it to be understood that his utterances are in the form of a challenge to the American colleges, but he would like to provoke an expression of opinion from the Cambridge and New Haven oarsmen. The Englishmen wish the race to be rowed in September on the Thames river, England. W. C. Forbes '92, president of the boat club, says that no official action has been taken in regard to Mr. Lehman's letters. Every year there is talk of an international race on the water...
...night Mr. Watson-Taylor had a talk with the crew on the theory of rowing and explained the present mode of rowing in England. There is an almost absolute similarity between the principles of rowing in England and in Yale and Harvard. There are some points of difference; all Englishmen are agreed that the slide and body swing ought to go together both in the stroke and in the recover; in Yale the swing and slide go together on the recover but not in the stroke. Harvard men bring their slides and body swing into one motion in the stroke...
There is expected to be a foot ball game arranged between a club of Englishmen living around New York and the Toronto eleven, to come off in a few weeks...