Also on the Charles, the Radcliffe heavy-weight crew team finished second in a three-way race with Princeton and Cornell.

The Black and White was especially pleased with its performance against Cornell, to whom it had lost in San Diego last weekend "by three or four seats," according to coxswain junior Laura Marx.

Harvard returned the favor by defeating Cornell by the same margin on their home waters.

"We feel that we have become much stronger in the past few weeks," Marx said. "We hope to get faster and faster as the season progresses."

The team is bound to improve as the team adjusts to the new lincup which was instituted only two days before the race, according to Marx.

"I feel that we will be really strong with time," Marx said. "This is one of the fittest teams I've ever had. Everyone is very strong and very athletic."

Other Crews

The Harvard JV avenged the varsity loss with a seven-second win (5:43 to 5:50), but the freshman heavyweights were also defeated by Brown, 5:48.5 to 5:58.3.

"I thought out JV team rowed extremely well," Parker said. "I was very pleased with the JV race."

Parker said that the freshmen did not display enough tenacity against Brown. "The freshmen did not row as aggressively as they could have," Parker said. "The Brown freshmen rowed very aggressively against them."

"There's a lot of work to be done for the freshman heavies," said freshman Terran Senftleben, who rows in the fifth seat. "Hopefully, this loss is what we need to pull ourselves together for the rest of the season. It's no one's fault but our own, so we need to work hard and drill, drill, drill all the time."