Eventually
the process ends in the survival of the fittest, and the two eights finally chosen are matched against each other over a two-mile course at Moulsford, in order to test the capacity of the men in a race.
From these sixteen "Trials' men," with the addition of the President and Secretary of the University Boat Club and possibly one or two old blues who may have been excused from rowing in Trials, the University LENT RACES AT CAMBRIDGE. the rowing is not of a serious character) also take place about the end of the summer term.