A native of Ann Arbor and a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1951, KENNETH KENISTON rowed on the Freshman crew in 1947, and in 1950 on the Varsity crew which defeated Yale and which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. Then Mr. Keniston went as a Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Number Six in a crew which defeated Cambridge and where he found that rowing is taken quite as seriously as graduate work. His article is printed here with the kind permission of the Oxford Angle.