The Philadelphia Press of May 1, contains a column and a quarter explaining a device invented by Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. The description was somewhat lengthy, but the main features are the following:

A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows: "It indicates the comparative strength of the different oarsmen, affording an easy and even method of selecting the best men." * * * Many men have the faculty of deceiving others as to their rowing efficiency and their shallow curves would at once show their true status. It indicates the form or type of strokes pulled and enables a man to correct himself and be corrected by a trainer. It has long been a wonder how some comparatively weak men can out-row many stronger. The explanation lies largely in the fact that the one distributes his strength over the stroke in the most telling way. This economical stroke would have a corresponding curve, and if we all knew the proper curve to row, we might all be "skillful" oarsmen. * * * It affords a means of preserving a given type, for like the phonograph, its impressions can be preserved for use in the distant future."

Mr. Cook being in town yesterday tried the apparatus himself, though, he says the results must not be taken as his stroke for he was not in proper condition to show his real curves. He recommends the machine as a useful aid in coaching. Nevertheless, the University crew has not yet decided to employ it. - Yale News.