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 but unmixed good for the school. The convivial entertainments of Check nights and Oppidan dinners had already become insti- tutions of a past age, Drinking and smoking had died out, and all that was wanted to stir the boys from lounging about in their skiffs under willow bushes and back streams was the ex- citement of a great annual race and the effort to qualify for a place in the eight. There have almost always been Eton men in the University crews, and since 1861 there haye sometimes been as many as five in one crew, and certainly as many, if not more, in every ‘Varsity’ race. Eton hasalways had its full share of the Presidentships. hird V'rinity, Cambridge, has never ceas2d to hold its own in a high position on the Cam, and we have neyer heard a word of any deterioration, and much the other way, of the moral effect on the boys of being coached during their training. The special adyantage of having the river as a recreation place in addition to the playing fields puts Eton to the front in athletics among our public schools ; and the use of varieties of boats from early life, under all sorts of difficulties, on a rapid stream, and having to keep his proper side to avoid other craft, makes the ‘Wet bob’ a first class waterman. Sloreat Liona.

CAPTAINS OF THE BoATS AnD NorArre Evens.

Year Captain of the Boats Notable Events

1812 | G. Simson. |

1814 | R. Wyatt. ® |

1815 | 7, Hill. . t

1816 | Bridgeman Simpson. |

1816 | M. Bligh.

1817 | J. O.Secher 5

1818 | J. IL. Tuckfield 1819 | K. Tuckfield 1820 | Lord Dunlo 1821 | M. Ashley * 1822 | J. A. Kinglake. 1823 | P. J. Nugent. 1824 | W, Carew a 1825] A.Leith. 1825 | M. Clifford 1826 | 1. Staniforth.