Now that the class races are over, the members of the various crews should not throw aside their boating suits and oars, but should set to work to form scratch crews, in order to bring out new men as future candidates for the 'varsity. There are plenty of men in college who, if properly coached, would make very strong oarsmen, but who, through diffidence or laziness, decline to put themselves forward. The boat-house contains several eight oared barges which might as well be put to some use; so there is no reason why three or four crews should not go out every afternoon at a certain hour. Last year the president of the boat club went out every day with a scratch crew, and the result of his labors has been made apparent in the closeness of the contest last Friday. Let the same thing be done this year on a larger scale, and we can safely predict that our future class and 'varsity crews will be much benefited by the result.
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