Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LETTERS from a Yale graduate appear in the last Yale papers on the mode of managing the Harvard Yale eight-oar race. The writer appears to have given considerable thought to the subject, and his views may be of interest to our boating...
There is little doubt but that if the "sideshows" were abolished, greater interest would be centred on the University race. All these auxiliaries, except the Freshman and single-scull races, are foreign to the real object, of little interest in themselves, and their connection with the University race might be very fitly broken...
There is more reason for retaining the Freshman race. It serves as a school for future University men, and creates usually a healthy interest in boating among the Freshmen. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether class races and class crews are not incongruous with the present boating-system at Harvard, and whether the same material for University oars could not be worked up by club races, while the money necessary for the support of the Freshman crew could be given to the 'Varsity...
...Freshman crew is successful, there is enough encouragement given the strong men of the class to work for the University. But if the crew is unsuccessful, or if, through lack of interest or mismanagement, no crew is sent to the race, the enthusiasm of many men cools, and the class makes a poor show in after years. When the crew is unsuccessful the good men are often discouraged, and if the crew falls through, it is not generally until towards the end of Freshman year, and men who might have been good oars have not been tested in club crews...
...when this consideration is added to that of the desirability of centring all the interest on the one event, perhaps it would be as well to discontinue them...