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Early in the afternoon coach Higginson took Hartwell's place at 7 in the first crew, for a short while. Both eights then went down-stream nearly to Harvard Bridge, rowing all eight below the Longwood Bridge...
...work of the two University crews yesterday afternoon was much the same as that of last week. Coach Higginson went in at stroke of the second boat, the other orders being practically unchanged. Both crews rowed short stretches in fours and eights and but little coaching was done. The first eight is using the shell of last year's University crew, and the second that of last year's Freshmen...
...time was spent in individual coaching; while in the afternoon, when the crews rowed in eights, special attention was paid to team work. The coaching aimed principally at lengthening out the stroke and getting a firm catch. The only long row was taken on Thursday when the two crews went over the three and a half mile course, from the Weld boathouse to the Union Boat Club. The orders of the two eights, as they rowed on Thursday, follow...
...crews rowed Saturday in the same orders as given above except that Guild went in at stroke and White at 6 in the first boat...
Professor Hill was born in Waltham on April 27, 1849. His father was Thomas Hill, president of Harvard from 1862 to 1868. After graduating from Harvard in the class of 1869 Professor Hill went to Europe and studied for a year at the University of Berlin. In 1870 he returned to Cambridge and became an assistant in the Chemical Laboratory. In 1874 he was made assistant professor of chemistry, and in 1884 professor of chemistry. At the death of Professor J. P. Cooke, Director of the Chemical Laboratory, in 1894, Professor Hill succeeded him as Director. During his term...