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and Pennsylvania are now the only other rowing colleges of any consequence on the Atlantic coast. Yale forsook her good rowing principles in 1880-1883 and entered upon another era of experiments which resulted disastrously.

But in 1884 she again returned to the principles Mr. Cook had inculcated, and has since never departed from them, although the crew's Henley experience in 1896 made it plain that the stroke had unconsciously Howell Hemmerde FINAL OF THE DIAMOND SCULLS.

He when he returned he brought with him the fundamental principles of rowing, which have ever since been followed at Yale. brought to America the long sweep and the slow recover of the Englishmen, and he left behind the short slide. That year at Springfield, in a three-mile straightaway, was made the first practical test of the new stroke. Yale turned out the best crew she had had for years, and won in a field that included Harvard (which finished third to Wesleyan's second), Amherst, Agricultural