Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...therefore with pleasure offer our apology to this committee for our hasty characterization of its action. That its motives and course of action have been fully explained cannot but be a cause of satisfaction to all who have watched that course with anxious interest for the past few months...
...actuated by sincere motives as expressed in Prof. Norton's letter in prohibiting the Yale game, and that no official assurance has been given the nine of permission to employ a professional trainer in the contingency named, although individual members of the committee may be in favor of such action in that case...
...winning. Now, when by the addition of a new and superior crew, the chances of the two best crews are materially lessened, what must be the effect on the other two crews? Further, enthusiasm among the members of a crew is what calls out new candidates; therefore this action of the Law School will lesson to a great degree the desire of new men to try for the undergraduate crews. While I would not wish in the least to dampen the ardor of our legal fellow-students, it does seem that it would be but just for them to allow...
...their minds the real intention and aim of class races, i. e., to prepare men for the 'varsity. It is fair to suppose that most of these Law School oars have either had their share of the 'varsity or never will have it. Therefore, on this ground their action is useless...
...presumably A. H. Van Snideren, an officer of the Columbia Boat Club, writes to the N. Y. Times about the recent action of the Pennsylvania oarsmen: "Their ambition was laudable. At the Passaic regatta on May 30, 1883, their wish was gratified to a very limited extent. They then met the Columbia college eight under conditions the most favorable as far as they themselves were concerned. That is, the race was to be for a mile and a half, their most practiced distance; they had been rowing together for at least a year under professional coaching, and they were...