Word: rowing
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Baseball players will be awarded letters for playing in the Princeton and Harvard games, and the oarsmen who row against the University eight will receive the "Y". The proposed race against Princeton is not yet settled, and no announcement has been made of an award for members of the crew who row against the University of Pennsylvania. The arrangement of intercollegiate schedules in all three sports, although carefully limited and restricted as to details, has completed the process of launching Yale athletics into as wide a competition as can be planned at present...
...been said in some newspapers which claimed to be quoting one of our athletic heads, that interest in rowing here was entirely negligible. Judging by numbers, this is doubtless true. But it is obviously hard to get men out during the winter to row on the monotonous machines when there is small prospect of there being any crew worth while making. Everybody says that during war time it is the duty of the colleges to keep the maximum number of men at athletics in order to improve their physical condition. By dropping intercollegiate athletics so suddenly the colleges have gone...
...fact but unfortunately a true one that the upperclassmen are at present taking no interest in rowing. A year ago at this time the boathouse was packed with ambitious oarsmen; now at most two or three report. Possibly the members of the University are working too hand to take an hour off every few afternoons, but somehow we doubt it. The word "informal" should not carry with it any sort of stigma, especially as the crew is probably to row a similar Yale organization this spring...
More men are still needed, especially coxes. Everybody who reports will be given a chance to row with a crew on the river for the rest of the season as there are to be no cuts in the squad...
...neighborhood of twenty-five cents are not exempt, and the undergraduate consumer of their amusement must bear the brunt. Reserved seats at theatres are on a special balck-list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...