The condition of the boat-house yesterday was not very inviting. Everything was in disorder. In the dressing-rooms there was neither fire nor water. The warm weather, however, luckily for the oarsmen, made the absence of the stove, now undergoing repairs, less a hardship than it might have been; but the want of fresh water for bathing proved to be very disagreeable. As the floats were not yet in position, and the tide was low, the crews which went out were obliged to wade knee deep in the ice-cold water and mud. It was even necessary to push aside floating cakes of ice, which had collected in front of the platform of the boat-house. When fairly afloat, the boats ran considerable danger of smashing their bows against the halfhidden blocks of ice. The seniors went out in their barge early in the afternoon.
On account of the illness of John Smyth, the carpenter at the boat house, the barges of the other crews, which were in need of repairs, could not be used. The sophomores, however, rowed in pair oars and singles.
Late in the afternoon Capt. Storrow, and several members of his crew were still busily engaged in fitting seats, and fastening oar-locks on their barge.
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