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...Adams, 2nd, streered the barge and coached the crew. About fifteen minutes before the crew stopped rowing he gave Charlie Hart his place, and he himself watched the crew row from the float...
Captain Perkins and Adams had a long consultation on the float and finally decided that, owing to the ice and snow, the crew had better row in the tank...
...crew is fortunate this season in not being bothered with floating ice which usually comes from the marshes in the early part of the season. This year the big blocks of ice have all melted on the marshes instead of being carried out into the river. The small float is the only one yet in the river and the college put that in only on condition that the Boat Club would be responsible for its safety. Last year it was broken by the floating ice. The big float will probably be put in position in about three weeks...
...varsity crew rowed on the river yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Night before last the ice in the river was fairly solid; since then, however, the ice has broken up rapidly and yesterday afternoon the river was perfectly clear. The big float has no yet been put in the river, and the crew yesterday put in their barge from the small, upper float. They went out in the new barge which has been made this past winter, but which has never before been used...
...Sargent has just introduced into the rowing tank a new apparatus for measuring the different strokes. A tin cone is weighted to float just below the surface, and from the cone a string runs to the measuring machine. It is fastened to a bar of metal, at the other end of which there is a pencil. The pencil is constantly leaving a a mark on a sheet of paper moved by clock work. At every stroke the rush of water against the cone causes the pencil to make a sharp deflection in the course it is tracing on the paper...