... the year 1 869 —one in 18 56, one in1 863 ,-and one in 1 868 ; and the mean age of these threeOarsmen, instead of being -60 years, was only 53. .InXIV INTRODUCTION.ignorance/ The first question ... first consider the cases of those who, either on their own testimony or on that of their relations and friends, sustained more orless injury from the training and exertion connectedwith the University ... men."Several of my correspondents who rowed with B. allude to the state of his health, and concur in the opinion thathe was not fit to row at the time he undertook the Putney race. One of them thus expresses...