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...race rowing back and forth mechanically and deliberately as one body. There was no undue haste, as had been the case in previous races. The six men were as though molded into one, operating like the works of a well-regulated clock, in perfect unison and harmony. The result was a conservation of force, previously unknown in a boat. The test was a fair one in every respect. With a crew physically inferior to that of the preceding year, we easily defeated ten crews equal to those that rowed the year before...
...stroke with undoubted success. Harvard, too, had in the meantime adopted it. In 1876 I left college, and from 1877 to 1880 Yale abandoned the new system, through the mismanagement of those at the head of its boating department, and resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily both...
...regular spring vacation certainly deserves to meet more consideration than it has hitherto received. After the work of the mid-year examinations it is but natural that everyone should feel pretty well tired out, but no attention whatever is paid to this fact; recitations continue regularly, and as a result little work, if any, is done for a week or two by the students. Then, just as everything gets in running order again, a vacation comes to break in upon the work, and necessitates an entirely new start. Such a state of affairs at first sight seems absurd...
...still early to make predictions concerning the class races, but it would seem from present appearances that that event of the college boating year on the Charles river will be very closely contested. Each crew seems to have the advantage in some particular, and the result is not likely to be a procession. No crew is thought as yet to be sure for first place, nor are the chances of any crew for that place so small that it is only hoping to save itself from last place. All things taken together, the class crews are to be congratulated...
From a comparison of the crews we get the following result: At present '87 is the heaviest crew, '86 the most skillful, '85 the strongest, and '84 rows the fastest for a short distance. The result of the race will show whether a professional, or the "Harvard" stroke is better for an eight-oared crew in a two-mile race...