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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:-The communication in your paper yesterday which suggests the formation of a canx club seems to me a very sensible one. As your correspondent says, there are a number of active canxists in college, and their interest and enjoyment will certainly be increased if the club be formed...
...existing organization, nor intefere with the privileges of anyone, but which may be of advantage to many. I do not refer to a "Studying Club," that we can probably get along without, but to a club devoted to one of the pleasantest and most beneficial of sports- canxing. We have now a number of active canxists in college, and others would doubtless engage in the sport if a canx club should be formed...
...training, nor to strain himself to excel everyone else. It is free from all suspicion of "professionalism." The canoeist engages in his sport for the pure fun of the thing, and can get along without the glory and black eyes and broken shins on base-ball and football. Canxing contains all the pleasures of yachting, and in addition many others of which the yachtsman knows nothing. To quote from one of the pioneers of the sport in America, "Canxing is the active principle of yachting set free from costly suppers, tyrannical sailing-masters, and the endless war of keel...
...advantages of a canx club at Harvard would be many. It would unite those who now enjoy the sport alone, and would put canxing on a firm basis here. Short runs could be taken down the harbor, up the Charles and Mystic, and to many other places near at hand. Sailing and paddling races could be held on the river, and would be very enjoyable. There is already a flourishing canx club in Cambridge, and with the canxists of the Union Club in addition, there would probably be no lack of competitors for us should we hold open races...
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