Word: interest
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FROM the boating reputation of Harvard in times gone by, from the number of the students and from the wealth of the majority, one justly expects to find here a hearty interest taken in boating. But during the boating season last year the racing boats of the clubs were filled with men few of whom were fit to row in a race, and the boats intended for those who row for exercise only were, except in a few instances, not used at all. The University Crew, when placed beside a first-rate crew, made no show whatever, and when placed...
...belongs to those who take any interest in Harvard's position in future boat races to inquire into the cause of this indifference. To ascribe the cause to the interest in base-ball and foot-ball is not just, for the number of students is large enough for all the sports, and success in one sport ought not to prevent success in another. I lay it to the deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time...
WHATEVER may be the respective merits of the Oxford and Harvard strokes, and whatever advantages Captain Cook's "adaptation of the English stroke" may possess, there is another question outside of these matters, - the question as to how an active interest in boating can be revived. The results of the races last May were not flattering to the much-extolled club system; the boats were filled with hastily collected, imperfectly trained oarsmen, that varied as much in ability and knowledge of rowing as a crew possibly could. The boating-men who were not in training for the "Varsity...
...about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will take more trouble to sustain the good reputation of his class crew, - a crew with whom he has associated and trained, - than to row in a boat with men he has never pulled with before...
...club system was organized two years ago for the purpose of arousing a more general interest in boating, and for a time accomplished its object. The novelty soon wore away, and, judging from the present condition of the different clubs, unless something is soon done, our boat clubs will exist more in name than in fact. I shall not discuss the question whether this change from class-races to the present system was an advisable one or not, but I think that the general indifference manifested this fall might be bettered by a little exertion on the part...