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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Illustrations might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they are obvious to every one interested in the subject. The present system leads directly to the selection of "soft electives," and favorite instructors known as "easy markers," - a royal road indeed to high college rank...
...when their presence there may disturb the very delicately balanced arrangements required for the success of the Harvard-Yale race, I most earnestly hope that they may at least consent to name Monday, June 30, as the earliest date for their race. That will allow the Harvard-Yale crews one chance for postponement in case rough water prevents their rowing on the appointed Friday, and will also, in case no such postponement is necessary, allow New London three days in which, like Nicsics of Oriental fame, it may be "revictualled." I should prefer a date as late as July...
...confuse and upset the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency in that mournful direction, and that the natural obstacles which the managers have to contend against should not be unnecessarily increased by one jot or tittle. Alluding to one of the lesser of these obstacles, I may say that, spite of all which can be done to prevent it, ''the famine which raged at New London on the 28th of last June" must to some extent rage there again on the 27th...
...Harvard Freshmen do not care to arrange a race with their Cornell rivals under its auspices, and if they do make a good showing in their race with Columbia, I venture to suggest to them the propriety of boldly entering for one or both of the challenge cups. That their doing so would not necessarily by presumptuous or hopeless will be made evident by the following record. In 1872 the winning Wesleyan Freshmen made better time than four out of the six crews in the University race; in 1873 the winning Yale Freshmen did better than seven of the eleven...
...outsider of some experience in such matters may judge, is an enthusiasm for the encouragement of honest amateur aquatics, and for the suppression of paid oarsmen at all hazards. The presumption that the college races under their auspices will be satisfactorily managed must be admitted to be a strong one by any reader of the following press comments concerning their regatta at Newark, on the 20th and 21st of August last...