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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Cannot something be done to insure sending a four-oared crew to the intercollegiate regatta to be held at Saratoga on July 4th? The hotels have offered free transportation and accommodation, so that the cost of such a crew would be comparatively slight. The necessary expenses would be somewhere between $400 and $500, and surely such a sum could easily be raised for the purpose. The objection that shall immediately be made to sending a crew, is that there would not be time to shake a four together after the Yale race, and that any other crew...
...champions of all the American colleges. In other words, they intent to ignore the claims of the old and tried oarsmen of Harvard and Yale, merely because these latter parties have too many previous engagements to accept the challenge of this last aspirant for aquatic honors. College boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make no money in return for the expense incurred. For this reason, any one college cannot undertake more than one or two races a year. Now Harvard is already saddled with two races for the coming summer and finds...
...June admission examinations are now conducted simultaneously at Andover, Exeter, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, and they answer a good purpose and cost but little. This method of carrying the examination papers to the candidates, instead of obliging all candidates to travel to Cambridge, only dates from 1876; it has been gradually extended, and bids fair to become the normal method for large academies and for cities which possess schools capable of preparing boys for this university...
Newnham College, Cambridge, has now about eighty students in residence and makes a reasonable profit, out of which, however, during the past year, over L600 was devoted to reducing the cost of education by means of scholarships, exhibitions, and loans. An additional wing to the north hall and a hospital building are now in progress. Some magnificent donations have been recently made by Mrs. H. Sidgwick and Mr. Winkworth towards the cost of building a biological laboratory. The correspondence classes conducted in connection with Newnham College continue to be very useful in directing the studies of lady students residing...
What harm then can there be in accepting such an offer? No attempt is made to induce the crews to act unfairly in the race. The offer is made to all alike. They simply select Saratoga because it will cost them less to row the race there then elsewhere, and their fellow students will be thereby relieved of a corresponding amount of subscriptions. Besides they are not to depend upon the hotel men for patronage. They will not row the race to please and benefit a set of businessmen, such as hotel keepers, but to have a chance of contending...