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...Balance due J. Blakey...
...will be allowed to join the clubs for less than one year, except Seniors, who may join for the spring by paying $6.66. The fee for the whole year is $10.00, in advance. Some further steps were taken to complete the purchase of the boats from Mr. Blakey. The rule that members of the clubs must first become members of the H. U. B. C. is to be enforced...
...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...
...several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected, is imperatively needed, and for this we can look only to graduates...
...given. Let it be this year realized that the English boat will cost the same, whenever it is bought, and that, ordered now, it will prove of the greatest importance; ordered four months hence, it will be useless. Furthermore, if procured now, it can be used by Blakey as a model for the construction of the other boat, a point which doubles its value. Such a gift from the graduates will not prove undeserved. Our crew are of good promise; and they are now working faithfully and doing all in their power to insure success. That their efforts will...