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...University trial eights squad consisting of two crews picked last fall, will row until about May 10, when a race between the two crews will be held over the three and three-eighths mile course. The University squad will then be chosen. The race for the class crews, including the Freshmen, will be held about May 25. Since the system for the University division will be parallel to that of the class crews, the men on the latter will be watched and will, if they show ability, be taken up to the University division...
...tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There will be also outlets for marginal conduits, through which all sewage overflow, which now goes into the basin in times of heavy rain storms...
Four Freshman crews rowed yesterday over a course of a mile and a half upstream from the Newell Boat Club. The crews are not yet well developed as there is much new material to be tried out. Stationary seats are being used and the crews are not graded in any way, the orders being changed from day to day. The men who do not get a chance to row on the river in the afternoon will be given work on the machines in the boat-house. Vail and Rice are coaching...
...general plans for the development of the University crew which will row against Yale next June have just been completed by Captain Filley. According to this arrangement, the trial-eights squad, selected last week from the crews which took part in the interclub races, will continue to row during the remainder of this fall as long as the river keeps open. This squad is composed, as far as can be seen at present, of the best oarsmen in the University, excluding former University crew members, but promising men will be added from time to time as seems advisable...
...season. Candidates for the regular class crew will be called out during the winter and will compete in the class races in the spring. Just as the University trial-eights squad is intended to furnish elementary practice for the University crew, is is planned to have the Freshman fall rowing introductory to the Freshman crew which will row in the class races and against the Yale freshmen...