The Freshman Crew.

The crew has been doing very good work lately, although it is deprived of the important help and advice of Col. Bancroft, which all freshmen crews have had for the past five years. The upper classmen have been very kind in their efforts to help the crew, Messrs. Mumford and Borland especially, being untiring in their efforts. The crew now rows six hundred strokes a day, using the sliding seats. Porter is still stroking, and bids fair to be a capital man for the place. The crew runs every day on North Avenue, and pulls the chest weights three times, and uses the dumb-bells twice every week. The '85 crew has ordered a fine paper shell from Waters, which they will use in the class races. After the race this will be sold to the freshman crew, which will use it in the Columbia race. In the class races, the freshmen will use the '82 'varsity shell. A. P. Butler is now stroking the second crew, which is doing fairly well. Altogether, the crew is working well and faithfully; the men are steady and reliable, train well, and will do everything in their power to bring Harvard out ahead of Columbia next June.