Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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AT the boating convention at Worcester a resolution allowing candidates for the degree of A. B., Ph. D. & c., to row on University crews was passed. Nothing was said about admitting men from the Freshman class in scientific schools to row together with the Academic Freshmen. Moreover, no Freshman crew...
When such is the state of affairs we were surprised, not long since, to learn that Yale proposed to enter at this summer's races a consolidated Freshman crew, both "Academics" and "Scientifics." No notice was given to either Amherst or Harvard Freshmen, the only two other entries; much less...
The Springfield Republican also, adopting the view of the Yale papers, and, strange to say, for once soiling its reputation for impartiality, follows them also in its language. It accuses our men of "showing the white feather," because after a student from Harvard had seen the Yale Freshmen row, then...
The class is bound to do what is just to Yale, but no more; for did they go further and yield everything that Yale impertinence demands, nothing could be more unjust, and consequently unfair, to Harvard herself, and a host of smaller colleges.
We assert then, what is trite enough, that it is not for our Freshmen to be over generous with what does not belong to them, Harvard's aquatic reputation, but to see that all the arrangements are equitable as well to Harvard as to Yale. Under these circumstances, which the...