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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![country which pay most attention to rowing are Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia. It is well known than in both Oxford and Cambridge uni- ] versities the men who row are numbered by hun- • dreds; that over twenty eight-oared crews alone, to ^ say nothing of other classes, are sometimes on the river at once, and that the problem for the ^Var- J sity captain is not, as here, to find eight men all ! fitted for places in the boat, but, out of many fit, • to tell which to take. For years the American j press has reported the performances of our student '■ oarsmen even oftener and more fully than the Eng- ^ lish non-sporting papers those of their own oars- I men, so that they have filled a larger space in the v public eye. Men naturallj'- thought that the iute- ^ rest among the students themselves was well-nigh | universal, and many fathers expressed misgivings I about sending sons to institutions where the regular j curriculum seemed a secondary matter, and per- ^ formance in athletic contests the chief thingf. Yet, strange as it may seem, this whole idea is • an egi’egious mistake. Most of the students do v take some interest in these contests, but it goes r no farther than talking somewhat about them, and ‘ viewing them when they come off’, and perhaps betting the amount of their term-bills on them. The number who actually take part, either in the racing or the ball matches, or in trying for a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28079656_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
