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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Another thing that those trying for a crew should bear in mind is that they must sacrifice all pleasures inconsistent with training to the work they have undertaken. Anything which retards their physical improvement is not only harm done to themselves, but it is also an injury to the interests of the College, which depends upon their efforts for success. The sacrifices which they are obliged to make are never unrewarded. In recompense for self-denial in a few things, they obtain the respect of their fellow-students, and the honor of representing them...
...following suggestion of a practical nature. Another committee, not necessarily captains of the crew, eleven, etc., might be appointed and instructed to decide within a given time, and announce their decision to the College. This committee could go to N. L. Green, who imports largely for the trade, and also directly to order, select a color, and declare it as Harvard's color. Mr. Green, who at present furnishes ribbon for most of our societies, upon being assured of our patronage, would import this color, and supply it to students, and also dealers at the regatta, and by this means...
...wrote a letter to the New York Tribune reviewing the crews of the late regatta and examining their future prospects. Under the impression that we have three men of the last crew who will pull next summer, he says that "instead of again putting off most of the coaching also till the winter is over, it ought to be done now. With three new men as strong and enduring as the present three, with adequate coaching, and two or three more strokes to the minute, with more throwing the head on, and omitting none of this year's swing...
...that was to have contests in some useful and honest work between students. Looking from both a pecuniary and moral point of view, how much better it would be for Harvard to give up her boating and athletic sports, which not only involve great expenditure of money, but also foster vice by creating in students a desire for betting, and devote a part of the money hither-to spent on these to the purchase of agricultural implements and the formation of a society for the cultivation of the soil...
...nature might take place on Jarvis Field, and in these contests wreaths of laurel and farming implements could be awarded to the victors, while to each of the vanquished, as a compensation for the disappointment, an elegant chromo and a copy of Vick's Floral Guide might be presented. Also the land in the rear of the Scientific School, if proper attention were paid to it, might be induced to become the abode of the sweet-smelling onion, the cabbage, and the beet, - the last-named, however, will not need to be cultivated, for deceased members of its family already...