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This year, as last, the question comes up: "Shall the Yale freshmen be allowed to take part in our freshman race with Columbia or not?" At first it would seem that Harvard should decide this question, on account of her victory last year, - but as this race with Columbia has been an institution for such a long time, it is only fair that the latter college should have something to say about the matter. And from what several of their men inferred at New London last June, they will not hear of Yale's coming in this year...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Last year witnessed an innovation in boating affairs by the entry of Yale into the Harvard-Columbia freshman race. This year Yale is preparing to take the same step, and it may be well for the '90 crew to get the opinions of experienced and interested rowing men of the college, through the columns of CRIMSON, upon the subject, before agreeing with Columbia as last year, to admit Yale...
...experience of last July points out many reasons, and it cannot be too strongly impressed on the managers of the '90 crew that it is their duty to firmly decline any overtures from Yale '90, and to make their race a Harvard-Columbia race as it has been all these years. The men in the Columbia boat, at the Crocker House in New London, after the race last July, voiced the opinion of the class by asserting that they had never desired Yale in the course and hoped Harvard, as she had the right to decline or accept challenges...
...then stand firmly to the determination to row only Columbia '90 and if Yale wishes to row a freshmen crew, she can make some arrangement for her own race. It would not be too great a strain for the victorious crew in the Harvard-Columbia race, to row Yale a mile straight-away on the day after...
Whatever is done to give Yale '90 a race, it is to be hoped the old time Harvard-Columbia alliance will not be split to admit her again, and it must be remembered that Yale was admitted last year more from foolish courtesy than from real desire or enthusiasm...