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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Committee can afford to allow itself to be guided in this matter by undergraduate sentiment. As Mr. Herrick said, crew like other sports, belongs to the undergraduates and should be managed by them. They want crew to come into the system under which the other major sports are successful; and which our competitors use. E. W. Mahan has clearly summarized the duties of a captain, and has given ample justification for his position. W. J. Bingham has set forth the undergraduate dissatisfaction with the present policy. Among the communications which the CRIMSON has received on the subject...
Concerning the crew situation which you have brought before undergraduate attention, I should like to say that I feel there has been much misunderstanding both on the part of the undergraduates in general and on the part of Captain Morgan and those supporting the supremacy of the captain. The absolute control of the coach does not necessarily mean either the subordination of the captain or a lessening of his influence, nor does it mean the institution of a system of coaching whereby the head coach is to rule, as a despot, roughshod over rowing traditions or over undergraduate ideas...
...coaching of the crew to the older, more mature and experienced eye of the instructor. One has but to name men like Bancroft, Storrow, Lehman and Mr. Herrick in his coaching of the Henley crew to bear out this statement. Captains of crews coached by these men did not lose any of the credit, nor the opportunity to influence, mould and lead their crews. Unfortunately men of that stamp have not always been available and with the recourse to professional coaches it has often become necessary for the captain to shoulder responsibilities which improperly burden him and in some cases...
...been a leading observer of the growth and standardization of the curriculum. Professor Parker has been the actual administrator of the present method of concentration and distribution. And President Lowell's talk will have the clearness and authoritativeness of the founder of the elective system who has made this, like the Freshman dormitories, one of the fundamental policies of his administration...
...find who, if anyone, is to bear the responsibility for the glory or the ignominy of this season's University crew. The CRIMSON has hesitated to offer suggestions on the delicate adjustment between the coach and the captain of a major sport, in the hope that Mr. Herrick, like Mr. Haughton, would inaugurate a system wherein the coach takes supreme control...