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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Now that the question of a freshman race with Yale has been launched upon the consideration of the college at large, I feel that the impression created by your correspondent of yesterday requires as an adtidote the public expression of an opposing view, one which is held very genially throughout the college. First, your correspondent seems to admit that the course upon the Thames is so narrow that three crews cannot row there with equal chances, and he bases this assertion upon the fact that last June the Yale crew was compelled to swim over a part...
...athletics. Can our freshmen afford thus to let the stigma of cowardice be cast upon them by refusing Yale admission into this race, when Columbia has set the example of her willingness? They cannot. If the Thames course is wide enough, Yale should be admitted without doubt. The question, we have been told, rests with the class of '90. If they do not admit them "they do it with their eyes open to the consequences...
...Question: "Resolved, That the Labor Movement in American Politics should be supported...
Last, there is some talk of a second race, after the Harvard-Columbia race, with the Yale freshmen. This is manifestly out of the question. For our crew would be out of condition after a hard race with Columbia, to meet a few days later a crew of fresh men whether the race be a long or short one. No doubt Yale would welcome such a match; for every advantage would be in favor of its crew...
...question which is brought to our readers' attention by the communication in another column in regard to the freshman race with Yale, deserves much careful thought from the members of ninety. There are, of course objections to the re-admittance of the Yale freshman crew to the annual contest with Columbia, but there are many reasons also why our freshmen should concur with the decision reached by Columbia. Whatever be the result of the deliberations of Monday night, that judgment must have good solid reasons behind it and must not be the outcome of prejudice or hasty and careless discussion...