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...coaching is done by ex-captain Vail and Charles Adms, who has coached the crew for the last two years, and who now comes out twice a week. J. Storrow, stroke of the winning '85 crew, also comes out, but most of his coaching is devoted to Fennessy...
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...days of preparation. If after all the discouragements in rowing this year, victory comes as a superb triumph against odds, the whole University cannot fail to be very grateful to these two men. Nor will our gratitude be entirely dependent on the out-come of the race. To Captain Vail and the rest of the crew, we wish the best success. It has been years since Harvard has sent down to New London an eight which promised so well as the crew of 1893; and we all shall watch with anxiety to see how far this promise is fulfilled...
Thursday the water was rough till the afternoon, when the crew rowed some distance in short stretches. Perkins then took Vail's place and the crew rowed over the course. Friday was cloudy and cold and the crew could only row in the coves in the vicinity of their quarters...
...order of the 'varsity at present is: Fennessy stroke, Cummings 7, Vail 6, Fearing 5, Davis 4, Newell 3, Johnson 2, Burgess...