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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What has become of the wild enthusiasm which was created by Harvard's boating victory? Where are the supporters of the crew? Now that the collectors are on their rounds, they seem to have silently folded their tents and as silently stolen away. The 'varsity crew is almost in rags, Rags I say. There are not two sweaters alike in the whole crew. How can we expect any telling sympathetic vibration when there is no uniformity of appearance. The crew should have better support...
...spite of the disagreeable weather during the past week, the 'varsity crew has continued to row from fourteen to eighteen miles a day, and as a result of this hard work, it has made considerable improvement. The coaching is still directed almost entirely to developing the oarsmanship and watermanship, no effect as yet having been made to develop speed. The watermanship of the crew however is by no means weak at the present time...
...cannot be all study, nor yet all athletics. He must keep up his social interest with the outside world. To be tied down to college bounds and not given any time to go about, to do anything, or to see anybody would seem to most the height of unjust almost tyrannical restriction. Yet this is just the slavery to which the crew men voluntarily submit themselves. Every afternoon at half past three (not unfrequently in the morning too) the men have to go down to the river. It matters not what the weather is, whether chilly and raining, or stifling...
...Almost everything that goes to make an athletic meeting a success in the ordinary sense of the word was wanting at the meeting yesterday afternoon. To begin with, the weather was unfavorable. The afternoon was cold and raw and the heavy rains for the two days before had left the track in a deplorable condition, - any attempt at fast time being practically out of the question. There were certain regrettable flaws in the conduct of the meeting, - no announcing, for instance, being done at any time. The crowd which gathered to see the games was small - Harvard's delegation...
...sale of seats for the Princeton game took place at nine o'clock yesterday morning, as advertised. Just before the opening of the sale, the line of men reached from Leavitt & Peirce's almost to the corner of Linden street, and a few of the places in it had been held since early Wednesday evening...