Last week a crew made up of eight young ladies from Oxford met a crew made up of eight young young ladies from Cambridge in a half-mile race against time on the Isis River, England. In spite of some secrecy, an unwelcomed male cheering section of 5,000 was on hand and saw the Oxford ladies, urged by a fair coxswain wearing a corsage of violets, triumph over their Cambridge rivals. U. S. headline writers derived great inspiration from the announcement that the winning crew wore skirts; the losers, pants.
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