Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...opinions about the practicability of starting twelve crews, it was voted that the regatta be held at Springfield, that the course be straight-away, three miles, and that the Regatta Committee fix the starting-point. Now came the great dispute and struggle as to who should be qualified to row in the different crews. Motions were made, and amendment after amendment added. The presiding officer showed clearly a lack of decision and an ignorance of parliamentary rules which a few more years in college may correct, and was, just at this point, in a cheerful state of mental haziness...
Resolved, That an undergraduate connected with any institution be declarede ligible for its representative or University crew; meaning by "undergraduate" all candidates for the degree A. B., Ph. B., or such other degree as represents a similar or parallel course. But no person shall be allowed to row on the crew of one college who has graduated at another...
...question whether professional schools of colleges shall be allowed to row will be brought before the Convention...