The junior crew is now rowing as follows:

Position. Name. weight.

Stroke. W. Alexander, 158 lbs.

7. J. B. Blake, 146

6. R. F. Fiske (Capt.), 155

5. W. C. Herron, 165

4. C. F. Ayer, 168

3. W. Endicott, 194

2. F. S. Coolidge, 182

Bow. J. B. Fletcher, 133

Sub. J. M. W. Bartol, 157

Sub. W. E. Faulkner, 144

Sub. W. J. Bowen, 156

Stroke has a weak finish, and does not use his legs hard enough. He starts forward quickly on the recover, being the only man in the boat who does so. No. 7 is slow in starting forward, and does not use his shoulders well, fails to row them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble is a lack of power and life in his stroke. No. 4 catches too hard, and then jerks his oar into his body instead of bringing it in with a steady pull. He is very slow in starting forward. No. 3 catches too hard and swings back too far. He does not use his shoulders well and is slow in starting forward. His stroke has little power in it. No. 2 pulls a ragged, uneven stroke. Each motion is separate and distinct, and all are jerky. He should aim at a smoother stroke. His jerkiness is especially noticeable at the beginning of the recover. He tries to come forward quickly and rather overdoes It, getting a sort of a jump. He works too hard. Bow does not row his elbows into his sides well. He has many of the characteristics of a single sculler which are not exactly in accord with the traditions of an eight-oar, such as keeping his back bent and other details. Bartol, the first substitute, pulls a ragged and uneven stroke. He does not sit up well to his work, but sags and lets his stomach cave in. He rows hard but does not utilize his strength well. Faulkner rows with a bent back and does not keep his shoulders under control, letting them come round his ears and then slump back. He rows fairly smoothly but without enough power. Bowen rows very stiffly. His back seems especially stiff, and none of his motions are free enough.

The most conspicuous faults of the crew as a whole, are that they do not finish hard enough, and that they are slow in starting forward. With the exception of stroke, there is not a man in the boat who starts forward quickly enough.

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.