22 March 2025
By Philip Kuepper
To the Rower,
the finish line
is the beginning
of the next race.
(13 March 2025)
To the Rower
Hear The Boat Sing
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The article was interesting but inappropriate. In light of the 2025 Boat Race Committee’s importunate decision to exclude PGCE students from getting to the Start Line, comments regarding the Finish Line are farcical and in extremely poor taste.
Unfortunately this year’s Boat Race is DEAD in the opinions of the teaching profession. Urgent Organisational changes are required for the Oxford v Cambridge BR to regain any modicum of respect.
Richard Crowley
South Australia Rowing
This poem has nothing to do with this year’s Boat Race. It was written on 13 March, so before the controversy came to light.
Göran R Buckhorn,
Editor, HTBS
Apologies Goran. I would love to have heard my daughter Kate singing in the Cambridge boat. Alas she is a coxswain and can sing/shout with aplomb!
Yes, that would have been lovely. I’m terribly sad about the whole business.
Göran