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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Many of the older graduates feel, perhaps, that they have spent enough on boating, for previous to 1866 the crews were obliged to pay their own expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...well could be. Then the Governor was, ex officio, an Overseer, (and this in a State where Ben Butler has several times come so near gracing the gubernatorial chair!) The other Overseers were elected by the Legislature. Any one who will look over the list of Overseers previous to 1866 will find some names which he would never associate with an institution of learning, - names of men whose opinions as to whether Logic should be substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that...
...Index will probably lend a helping hand after it has settled a few more disputed points regarding Napoleon, and then the other papers will drop into line. The Chronicle is getting modest, referring to itself only sixteen times in the last number, instead of over thirty, as in a previous...
...procure this that their assistance is sought. That it will not be sought in vain, the experience of last summer assures us. Then, when our crew, defeated, deserted, and disorganized, were left to row the Saratoga race in the racked and worthless boat of the previous year, in which their practice time, with the best effort, the crew think, that they ever made, was eighteen minutes, the graduates stepped into the breach, and straightway a new boat came from Blakey's shop, and we were saved from utter defeat...
...miles. Instead of the "run" some of the men skated on the river. A slight tendency to use the arms too soon in the stroke was noticed. The shoulders were not kept down and "square" as a rule. The men got better together than on the two previous evenings. Some of the men appeared unskilful in handling the "levers," and from the frequent "break downs" that happen it is evident that the greatest care should be exercised in working the machines. Any carelessness or harsh usage may cause a serious inconvenience...