The news that, for three years at least, the crew is to have a regular coach, will be welcomed by every Harvard man, graduate and undergraduate.
That there has been something radically wrong with our rowing affairs has been made painfully evident at New London for the past few years.
Captain Fennessy has worked hard to get a competent coach, and whatever success comes to his crew this year, he may feel that he has done the right thing by introducing some system into the work.
The method of coaching, it is understood, will be that of the old school, from which the younger generation of oarsmen at Harvard has long departed, but which has been clung to by Oxford and Yale.
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