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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Permit me to make a few comments in regard to your editorial yesterday on boating. Although I am a man but little up in boating matters, it seems to me that such an arrangement between English and American crews would be not only possible but also highly desirable. It is useless to deny that there is something the matter, not only with boating, but also with the other athletics at Harvard. A fresh stimulus must be given to our athletics to prevent our position being lowered still further...
...proposition of "Bob" Cook that Yale, who is now at the top of the heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard...
...undertaking seems difficult, but if the four universities in question could be made to believe in it, then the minor matters of detail could be arranged without question. The financial hindrance is not so formidable as it appears, for there are graduates, almost without number, who would be glad to assist in the promotion of a series of races, like the one proposed. Will the boat club move in this matter, if the suggestion seems valuable to them...
...agitated, a few prominent boating men of Yale, held a consultation, at which it was decided that if the Cambridge crew came over here, and if Yale defeated Harvard, the wearers of the blue would challenge the Englishmen. As the latter concluded not to come to this country the matter was dropped. It is not at all probable that the Cambridge men can raise sufficient funds to come over here; in fact a letter received not long ago from a wellknown boating man there admits this fact. The same condition of affairs undoubtedly exists at Oxford. The only thing that...
Princeton is agitating the matter of a baseball cage...