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Exeter is evidently willing to do all it can to send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love for P. E. A., or some kindly interest in its students) to come up here this spring and teach us the stroke. It would perhaps not be a very desirable undertaking for the Harvard man, but his services would be very highly esteemed by us, and undoubtedly not less so by Harvard whom he would be the means of supplying with instructed if not efficient oarsmen. If it was necessary to teach us the stroke every year, we should have to give it up at once, but when it is once learned there is no reason why we should not, as they do in colleges, hand it down from one class to another."

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