Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...lastly, it is claimed that a system of intercollegiate contests would raise the standard of culture, and promote the cause of education in this country. Allusion is made to the skill in boating which has been attained by college oarsmen, and this is attributed to the intercollegiate regattas. The writer closes with an appeal to the college press to discuss this question thoroughly, and if it appear "right and advisable" to "put it through," assuring the students that if such a system be really desired by themselves, it will not be long destitute of influential men to support...
...Yale Courant contains an editorial upon the difficulty among the Freshman crews, in which it again asserts the Yale view of the matter. The Amherst crew have been a little sarcastic at the expense of the New Haven oarsmen. They say in a communication: "We have endeavored to look at the matter 'in a reasonable light,' and while we should be extremely sorry to see the Freshman race a failure, as Harvard has a crew chosen in accordance with the rules of the Association, we do not deem the presence of the Yale crew an indispensable necessity to insure...
What murmurs rose 'mid thine oarsmen bold...
...from the undergraduates, so that the chance of selection would call out a general physical education, the whole aspect of the case would be very different." There is no doubt about the altered aspect. The opinion of Professor Hadley of Yale is quoted to the effect that the Yale oarsmen have been so often beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following...