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...water. Harvard is willing to send one of her representatives to teach the stroke, and the boat club should improve the opportunity. If once the stroke is learned it can be passed down to succeeding classes and thereby our men prove invaluable to Harvard, and create more enthusiasm here. - [Exonian...
Exeter is evidently willing to do all it can to send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love...
...suggestion offered in the Exonian as regards teaching the Exeter crews the proper method of rowing, has certainly much to commend it. The whole objection in the past to aiding the academy boating interests has been that the men there were liable to acquire a bad system of rowing, so that it would afterwards be harder to teach them the Harvard stroke than it would if they had known absolutely nothing about rowing. The Exonian, in mentioning a way for removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years...
...Where is the Harvard Glee Club?" cries the Exonian plaintively...
...They must be training the boating men at Exeter down to a fine point," says the Exonian; "the animated skeletons of the middle class will soon begin to train for the crew. They will be kept on a bread and water diet, and what is left of them at the end of the year will be sent to Dartmouth...