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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great expense, seems never to have entered the minds of the Committee a year ago. These facts seem to me to be somewhat inconsistent with the view of the question which the Committee take now, for notice-the only grounds for dismissing Col. Bancroft, given either in the letter of the Graduate Committee or in that of the Athletic Committee, are that (to quote the words of the letter of the Graduate Committee) "the practise of having a paid coach is inexpedient and detrimental to the best interests of rowing at Harvard" That is, the only objections urged are either...
...committee, and the captain of the university crew. It was at the request of one of these parties that the CRIMSON has said nothing on this subject; but now that the facts are common property there can be no reason why they should longer be held back. The following letter, the latest of the series, explains itself...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The following letter from a prominent graduate of the college, has been received...
...unpleasant and not uncommon; the man upstairs who is getting up his muscle, and who dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing through the hall, and down...
...This letter gives no reasons for the statements made and makes no objection to any other date. But for Harvard, the Athletic regulations were the only trouble which prevented them from complying with Yale's demand. Rule 5 says that no game shall be played out of Cambridge except on Saturday; and as the committee on athletics have already broken it once this fall in favor of the freshmen, they refused to do so again on that very account. This state of affairs was quickly made known to the Yale manager, who wrote that the class had voted...