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SIENA, ITALY, December 23, 1876.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-
WHILE thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 9th ult., I wish to correct the impression under which you labor, that I compared the modern hydraulic machines with the old fashioned weights, which never, to my knowledge, were dignified with the epithet "rowing." I cited rowing weights at random, as affording an example by which I could illustrate a principle, namely, the mutual effects of mind and muscle.
I do not agree with you when you assert that these contrivances necessarily bring out the pluck and endurance of a crew, although they may so do. However subtly a rowing-weight may be constructed, it can never be the counterpart of boat and oar. I therefore wished to suggest to the captains of crews to consider whether the "form" acquired at these machines would be deleterious to the "form" on the river; whether their effects would be depressing; and to pay due attention to such questions as the invigorating influence of timely repose.
I attached but little importance to my hints about rowing-weights as compared with the other suggestions, which I trust will not prove altogether worthless to your boating men.
Most truly yours,
F. CROWNINSHIELD.
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