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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year; that they should advise freely and have power to enforce, matters connected with the stroke, training and selection of members of the crew and general superintendence of the rowing matters in general. There has been too much relying on the present captain for all such matters during the past two or three years. but the question is whether it has been the captains' good opinion of themselves or the refusal of the graduates to help them...
Oxford and Cambridge Universities have advising committees, and Yale has had one during the past few years, and Mr. Thayer says that after talking with some twenty graduate oarsmen within the last few weeks he is convinced that they will gladly serve on the committee if there is one, and will do their best to give the crew the benefit of their experience and observance. Captain Pfeiffer said very truly that it is too much responsibility for the captain of the crew to do all this alone, since he is necessarily a young man, and has not rowed more than...
...this branch of athletics, Harvard has in the past been unexcelled, and we believe would be so now if all the men who are conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those...
...before, at least so far as the 'Varsity crew is concerned. Yale has tied the score of races won or lost against Harvard, and has commenced this year's campaign more vigorously than ever. Rowing men here must cease wondering what were the causes of our defeat of the past two years, and look for the causes of Yale's success. Clearly it is because at Yale the captain of the 'Varsity crew is not expected nor allowed to be responsible for all things pertaining to his crew and its management. He is not called upon to do the work...
...crews should look for their instructions. Captains would then be relieved of the dread of unpopularity if they made mistakes, and would not become heroes if successful. Coaching would be the same for each crew, and not the coat of many colors that it has been in the past few years...