Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Annual Regatta of this Association shall not be considered a member of this Association, or have any vote in its convention," - feeling themselves aggrieved, and Harvard, fearing that injustice might possibly be done, moved a reconsideration, which was carried. Their cases being taken up separately, it was decided to allow Brown a vote, who, by the irregular calling of the last Convention, was unrepresented through no fault of its own. Amherst's claim to a vote was rejected, Harvard voting in the minority...
...proposition to buoy the course then came up on a separate motion, and was carried. A motion to allow coxswains to be taken from graduates of a college was deemed unconstitutional, on the ground that they were members of a crew, and therefore came under the regular rules of eligibility. It was then moved and carried that the Regatta Committee be a committee of qualification...
...left to the option of the colleges to row with or without coxswains, and supported his motion on what seems to us the specious ground that, because it was claimed by some that as good time could be made with coxswains as without, it was proper to allow those who thought they could make better time without coxswains to do so. All boats, we think, should be on the same footing, and the considerations in favor of coxswains are many besides that of time, which, in fact, is of small consequence any way in an amateur race. The motion...
...difficult and often deceptive to try to understand another person's motives, but it would be but charitable to suppose that our teachers realize that the most necessary things are often the most disagreeable, and to allow that, if they give us a good foundation, we may justly be expected to do the easiest and most interesting part of the work ourselves...
...hope that these decisions will at least be modified, so as to allow Glee Club concerts and dramatic representations to be given, as heretofore, in Boston and Cambridge...