Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COLUMBIA has sent us another challenge for an eight-oared race. The time and place are left to our decision, as before. Last year our crew were able to do better in their race with Yale from having previously rowed with Columbia. Moreover, to pull in a single race is a small object for men to look forward to during a year's hard training; and so the more races a crew can row, the more pleasure there is for them individually. Here, then, are the two things which make a race with Columbia desirable, - improvement of our chances with...
...subject, that some radical change is necessary in order to place boating within the reach of the majority of the students. We think that the plan proposed would, if put into execution, popularize boating, and at the same time greatly aid the University Crew. If any one has a better plan, now is the time to make it known, so that no time may be lost in making the changes so imperatively demanded...
...World will hereafter publish its college news in the Monday edition, and will give even more room to this department than it has hitherto devoted. Although the World's reports were better than those of any other paper, they left, at the close of the year, something still to be desired...
...more kindly disposed toward rowing, more hopeful for victory, and more ready to support the boat-clubs and the crew, than we have had reason to be for a number of years. By the excellent management of the treasury, the crew's finances have been left in a much better condition than before; but the tottering boat-clubs, with difficulty kept on their legs through last year, are now feebly supplicating support for another season. Boating is standing before us, like a stout and swift but rather ill-cared-for horse, ready to be fed, driven, and enjoyed...
...hands of a steward who gives very general satisfaction. The price of board has been brought down to a reasonable figure. The quality of the food has been quite good, and by the new system of extras the Directors have made it possible for each member to better it. There is no question, however, but that the fare did degenerate during the last month. The Directors should have taken particular pains to avoid this, for upon the reputation of the Association at the close of this year depends very much its success at the beginning of the next. The Directors...