Word: regatta
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Plans for the third annual Invitation Regatta to be held on the Charles the afternoon of May 25 have assumed a form of finality with the receipt of confirmation from New Haven that Yale has agreed to the advancing of the second University crew race from June 1 to the day of the regatta. As originally planned, the contest between the two second crews was to have taken place at Cambridge on the same day that the first eights rowed at New Haven. The new arrangement, however, is now assured by the Yale rowing management's acquiescence, as approval...
...Regatta Plans Made...
...been decided by the crew management to hold the annual spring regatta this year as usual, May 11 or 25 having been set as tentative dates, with the likelihood of the former being selected. Shortly after the recess, all crews but the upper University and Freshman eights will be reseated according to classes in preparation for the class crew races which constitute the major portion of this regatta. As in former years there will be comp, wherry and single races...
Professor Abbott has contributed much during the past two years in the way of making Yale thought articulate; and upon nothing is he more to be congratulated than his definition of the attitude which Yale takes in regard to wartime athletics, a propos of the Severn regatta. To quote in part...
...factor to be considered is that now, when the war makes it imperative to reduce all expenses to the minimum, is the time to inaugurate a reform of this kind. The high cost of rowing has always been traceable to the Poughkeepsie regatta, with its late date and its long and costly period of preliminary training. A plan which limits intercollegiate rowing to the academic year, which makes it possible for the student body to see its crews in action for its most important races, and which cuts expenses in half, is certainly worth serious consideration by the stewards...