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...rowing history may interest your readers. Sliding seats date back to a time which is, as college generations go, "immemorial antiquity;" but as any one may see from the pictures in the Newell boat-house or in R. C. Lehmann's "Oarsman," that antiquity is not much over four decades. From the position of back and knees in the older pictures, one may safely infer that the seats were fixed. A few months ago, Professor John Trowbridge, for many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed in a 30-inch...
...custodian of the old Harvard boat-house in 1871, and he said, in the presence of several college crews, that these seats could not prove to be of any use. In 1872, Trowbridge entered for the spring races in singles, and with him Bob Russell, the strongest oarsman of his day in college, and with a number of other men. The others failed to come to the scratch, so that the race became as it were a try-out between the new-fangled seats and the old. Trowbridge beat Russell up to the turning-stake: but the Charles in those...
...stroking the second university four, or Tucker, who is rowing at number four, should be put back into their old positions. Lowe is an entirely new man at the post of stroke and has yet to prove his fitness for the position. Captain Frost is the only veteran oarsman on the crew, as Van Sinderen, who rowed on the University eight last year and has stroked it a good deal this year, failed to keep his place and was dropped from the squad when it left New Haven...
...building can show eight men of the same high ability as some one or two. Development in such a boat is uncertain. The graded crews by their very nature are composed of men of much the same calibre, and it is in such an eight that a developing oarsman comes to light. The pleasure of rowing is also more real and tangible when each man can do his own share of the work. Incidentally there are boat club insignia to be awarded. With these reasons in favor of the graded crews, their popularity should be assured, and the inconsistency...
Although new to the starboard side of the boat, Captain Cutler is developing rapidly at 7, though his finish is as yet slightly awkward. Cutler is naturally a very adaptable oarsman and should be able to prove as valuable rowing some starboard oar as he has on the port side of the boat. Newton, Strong, and Metcalf, the other three veterans, have so far found no trouble in regaining last year's form, and the new men in the boat have done well...