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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I heartily endorse the opinion expressed by your correspondent in regard to the way affairs are now managed at the boat house. The authorities in charge of this house take too much upon themselves when they refuse to allow any professional rigger to do work in the house. They have no more right to shut John Smith out than they have to refuse the privileges of the club to a member of the college...
John Smyth, the former head of the boat house, has set up in business for himself as a practical rigger and instructor in rowing...
...boat was built to test a stretcher, out-rigger and rowlocks of which Mr. Fearon was the inventer. Fearon agreed to furnish the boat at coast, which was $150, to put in his inventions for nothing and if they were unsuccessful to take them out and rig the boat in the ordinary manner...
Davis, the Portland rigger and inventer, is having trouble with the leading colleges in regard to use of oar locks, which he claims are infringements of his patents...