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...being made to hold the practice at the same time of day as the Blue race will be held, in order that the men may be thoroughly familiar with the weather conditions before the race. This morning, there was no morning row because of the fact that the float was not in position and low tide prevented moving it until the afternoon. The University eight went for a two-mile spin this afternoon, however, going to the submarine base and back. The Freshman eight also had its first spin on the Thames...
...short row from the Weld boathouse demonstrated the fact that the new boat rolled heavily with the Freshmen. Accordingly, upon returning to the float the crew left the Pocock shell and took their oars over to the Newell boathouse, from which they embarked, in the new Lutz-built shell. Practice went far more smoothly and great satisfaction was expressed with the boat. When put to a vote as to which the Freshmen would prefer to keep, a unanimous decision was given in favor of the Lutz-built shell...
...meet some $48,000,000 of its 4% bonds due June 1 this year. All winter, conferences have been held, but the road's bankers, led by Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank, Manhattan, evidently refused to float a new refunding loan. In this they were no doubt quite justified, since such a loan could not have been placed below 6%, even if at that figure: and since, on that basis, about $1,000,000 additional fixed charges would have been saddled on the already over-burdened company. Accordingly...
This accident occurred when Coach Stevens and Captain Kelley were rowing on Crew Y, taking the places of two regulars, whose absence had been discovered as the crew was about to leave the float...
Coach Stevens gave up his seat and the rest of the crew rowed serenely back to the float...