“Monday was our day on the river. We don’t row every day, because there are not boats enough to go round, and only two coaches for eight schools. Caffrey coached us for a while from a launch that belongs to one of the boys, and then sent both crews up to the starting-place of the regular mile course and told us to race down to the boat-house. The first gave us a length start. Caffrey had said that we must think of our form all the time and pull for all that we were worth every instant the oar was in the water. It was the hardest work I ever did in my life, but I gave all my attention to my form and my oar, and I didn’t notice how tired I was till we got nearly to the Harvard bridge. For a while I occasionally got a glimpse of the first behind us, and that kept me encouraged, but about halfway down they passed us, and then I just had to pull blind, and I did my best. I knew I could stand it if the rest could. A little above the bridge, Mike called for a spurt, and Mac hit it up three or four strokes faster. I saw Sumner’s head begin to wabble, and I knew that he was getting to the end of his rope, and I began to worry about what I should do if he gave out. But Jack is good stuff, and he held out to the finish. By and by Mike cried out, ‘Ten strokes more! Make ’em hard now!’ and I found I had plenty of strength left after all. It is strange that though you seem to be pulling yourself out, there is always something left over! “When Mike called ‘Let her run!’ I was so tickled to think that I had kept my form all the way and rowed a good race that I sat up and grinned. That grin was worth a lot to me as you will see. Pitkin slumped down in the boat as soon as he stopped rowing. Caffrey had been alongside of us all the time watching every man. Afterwards he had a talk with Pete. I heard him say, ‘Pitkin’s face was all screwed up the last quarter, he was rowing weak; the other fellow just went white, and at the end he sat up and laughed.’ They saw me look up at that so they moved away. I guessed they were speaking of me, and I felt good, I can tell you, to think I had done well and proved my right to be in the second boat instead of the pair-oar. “Pete asked me to wait for him (he’s an awfully slow dresser), so I hung round on the float and watched some of the other boats. Caffrey had gone out with Waterville High who were waiting for him. Their crew is pretty good too. By and by Pete came along, and we went up together to the car. And what do you think he said to me? _Pitkin and I were to change places._ “I was so set up and so happy that I couldn’t study much, and I couldn’t get to sleep for a long time.