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...second, '81 third. Eldridge, '79, and Brown, '78, won the pair-oared race, beating Ridabock, '79, and Fiske, '81, in 7 min. 30 sec. College beat School of Mines in the four-oared barge race in 6 min. 51 sec. There were also some tub races and a canoe race...
...three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage to carry their old 22-inch tub of a boat over three miles of rough water in 18.44 1/2, can hardly be conjectured...
...equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon its own bottom, - all of which are exceedingly good a priori arguments and bear directly on the point...
...week or two the first scratch-races of the season will take place. These races have always been very interesting, but we think they might be made still more so if they were between scratch club-crews. As they have been heretofore conducted, they have been more like tub than boat races. The rowing has been very poor, and the number of fouls from the beginning to the end have been innumerable. If crews from the clubs only were allowed to enter the race, it strikes us the race would be more exciting. The danger of fouling can be entirely...
...College is to have the Boat-house on condition of paying off the existing mortgage and fixing up the second story with two hundred or more lockers, a bath-room, with shower-baths, bath-tub, hand basins, etc., and a reading or sitting room. There are to be reserved for the University Crew their present room up stairs and one compartment down stairs...