At the Universities, about this date, various prizes were established, all of which gave a stimulus to oarsmanship.
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W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason
The first principles of oarsmanship may be explained to a beginner in a few minutes, and he might roughly put them into force, in a casual and faulty manner, on the first day of his education.
"Boating"
W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason
Now it often happens that an oarsman, who is himself a good judge of rowing, and is capable of giving very good instructions to others, is guilty of many faults in his own oarsmanship.
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W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason