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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WITH this last number of Vol. VI. we present our subscribers with Indexes to the Crimson for Volumes V. and VI. Old subscribers to Vol. V. can obtain the Index to that volume on application to the University Bookstore. In arranging these Indexes, it will be observed that, for the first time, the editorials have been indexed by subjects, a convenience which will be appreciated by all who have occasion to refer to them. We have also taken the liberty of slightly changing for the Index the title of contributions, where such titles failed to indicate the real subjects discussed...
...give up rowing. Of nine other candidates, two were physically unable to take a place on the University crew, and one decided that he would rather study than row. As the notion of doing both did not strike him, he withdrew. This leaves only six men, including the present captain, Mr. Scudder; and as two of these are entirely unpractised in rowing, and as there is no chance of procuring substitutes in case of an accident, the Captain thinks that an endeavor to send a good crew to the regatta would be useless and foolish...
...become permanent. The system of four distinct boat-clubs has now been established for a year and a half, and the organization is found to be so imperfect as to be threatened with complete failure unless some remedy be applied. To find by what changes the present system may be improved is the purpose of this article...
...reached through the accomplishment of the first, and the support of the clubs will always depend upon the success with which they meet the need of the main body of the students. Such being the case, it is evident that if all the clubs are not flourishing at the present moment, it must be because the students in general are not satisfied with their management. No student will pay $15 a year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs...
...which prevents a member of Matthews from rowing in a double scull with a friend from Weld. For all purposes of emulation, the clubs would then be the same as before; each club would have its captain, its two barges, and its two crews, and the cause of the present dissatisfaction among members of clubs not in any crew would be removed. If the single and double sculls were common property, one could be sure of finding a boat in, or, at the worst, of having to wait only a few minutes before one of the number would be returned...