Word: boat-club
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...present constituted, the Harvard University Boat-Club is a boat-club only in name, and consists of an association that hires the boat-house, and, by hook or by crook, scrapes together enough money to pay the expenses of the University crew or to arrange its debts. Instead of encouraging the real interest in boating, it rather discourages it by calling on the undergraduates for $2,000 or $3,000 every year without giving anybody a chance to row excepting the crew and those who go to the additional expense of buying a boat and paying rent on it. Membership...
...Harvard University Boat-Club offers for sale five SIX-OAR SHELLS and three SINGLE SHELLS. Can be seen at the boat-house. Apply to H. G. DANFORTH...
...meeting of the Boat-Club last evening the following new divisions of the territory of the clubs was agreed upon...
...wish to call attention to the proposed change in the boat-club system, which is fully described in another column. This change seems likely to produce much good, as it will, eventually, greatly decrease the expenses incumbent on membership of the clubs, and, further, will place the whole management of the boats and boat-house in the hands of the club officers. The result of this will be that boats will be more regularly repaired, and better taken care of, all complaints and desired changes will be more readily attended to, and the ownership of the boats will bring with...
...year $850 was subscribed for the H. U. B. C. more than was ever paid. Of this amount, one hundred dollars was put down by members of the class of '76, and, consequently, will never be seen by the Club. A careful statement of the financial condition of the boat-club will be found in the article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain...