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...crew now have nearly their last year's crew and when they have settled down together good work may be expected of them. Contrary to the precedent of former years the order of the classes is not the favorite order predicted for the finish. The freshmen are placed much nearer the front than their college seniority permits, while the juniors and sophomores are interchanged by many who are accustomed to guess at the result of our class races...
...fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys...
...Memorial Hall, and another, J. W. Alexander, to give the likeness of Oliver Wendell Holmes for the Medical School. Both portraits are subjected to violent criticism in a number of papers. The Journal thinks the Holmes portrait a judgment on the committee that could not find a better painter nearer home; and the Gazette is even more wrathful. "The muddiness, the ugliness, and the fantastic charlatanism of the picture," it cries, "leave the spectator in doubt whether to be more exasperated at the impertinence or the recklessness of the artist...
...rules governing the actual rowing of the race seem to provide for all possible contingencies. Either boat is to be disqualified if at any point during the race it should be nearer than ten feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further provided that if during the first ten strokes either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine...
There shall be a central line of buoys which shall be situated at each half-mile point, and either boat shall be disqualified if at any point during the race it shall be nearer than ten feet or farther than one hundred feet from the central line of buoys...