the production and development of oarsmen, 

 and was justly celebrated for the insatiable 

 ardour with which he pursued the work 

 of coaching. He had his own ideas of the 

 proper pace for an eight-oared crew, pre- 

 ferring a humdrum paddle to the furious 

 oarsmanship that secures bumps. Of this he 

 sometimes showed his disapproval by attach- 

 ing himself to the coat or sweater of his 

 human colleague (if the latter happened to 

 be on foot) or by leaping desperately at the 

 supercilious nose of the tow-path horse. 

 During the later and speedier stages of prac- 

 tice we were, therefore, compelled to leave 

 him at the boathouse, where he superintended 

 embarkations and landings and defied or dis- 

 dained all rival crews. The restrictions of 

 Cambridge in regard to dogs he accepted 

 with great dignity. There was, indeed, a 

 famous occasion when I saw him strolling 

 nonchalantly across the Great Court of 

 Trinity toward the Master's Lodge, then 

 inhabited by Dr. Thompson, who knew about 

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