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Seatings of the First and Second University crews remained unchanged yesterday afternoon as they took to the water. Coach Whiteside started the long campaign for the New London four-mile grind by sending his first two eights over that distance upstream from the Basin at a paddle...
...compromise race over the upstream half-mile course was won by F. C. Bell '33. The novice singles final was won by H. H. Proctor 1L, with L. B. Russel second...
Square, now running in Manhattan. Says one character: "Suppose you are in a boat sailing down a winding stream. You watch the banks as they pass you. You went by a grove of maple trees upstream. But you can't see them now, so you saw them in the past, didn't you? You're watching a field of clover now. It's before your eyes at this moment, in the present. But you don't know yet what's around the bend in the stream there ahead...
...first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered over toward the bank, looking for shelter. The water was white all the way to Corney Reach, at the second bend, but Oxford felt the wind most; Cambridge was closing up, and going to Barnes Bridge little Swartwout...
...promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...