Of the men now rowing, Alexander, Fiske, Ayer, and Endicott have rowed for two years, Coolidge for one, and the others are all new men. Rantoul, who pulled in last year's race, is not rowing this year.

Eighty-seven is now rowing as nearly as possible the same stroke that the university does, with an easy catch followed by a long, steady sweep of the oar into the body with ever increasing force, so that the hardest pressure on the oar is applied to the very end of the stroke, instead of at the beginning of the stroke as was the case two years ago.

Eighty-seven had a strong crew in her freshman year, and four of the members of that crew rowed on the university last year against Yale and Columbia. Although four men were thus taken out of the boat, and one more had to give up rowing on account of sickness, leaving very few old men on the crew, yet they went to work with a will, and, as everyone must remember, defeated eighty-five in a very close and exciting race last spring; the other two classes not being in the race at all owing to accidents, though the result would without doubt have been the same in any case. This year they have been still further crippled by the loss of two more men, Russel and Remington; but in spite of this they have gone to work in a most praiseworthy manner, getting out all their powerful men, and straining every nerve to put a crew on the water this spring which shall repeat last year's triumphs, and enable them to retain the reputation they won last year during the rest of their college course. Besides the first crew, eighty-seven has such a plethora of candidates that she is enabled to keep an entire second crew in training, in order to fill up any gap which may occur in the first crew. This second crew is slightly changeable in respect to the different positions of the men, as there is more or less changeing and shifting about going on among them, but we think; the following list will give the positions of the various men as they are now rowing with tolerable accuracy:

Position. Name.

Stroke. Jackson.

7. Higginson.

6. Cushing.

5. Dudley.

5. Austin.

3. Carmalt.

2. Knapp.

Bow. Robinson.