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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeling more effectually than anything else can, and to abolish them in a college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...
...Sargent tells me that there are 400 students actually in training, more or less, for various athletic teams, and, perhaps, nothing shows the general average improvement more than the fact that last year there were 250 men stronger than the strongest man in 1880. It is safe to say that any alumnus of over eight years' standing, by going to Holmes and Jarvis fields of a pleasant afternoon will see an amount of general exercise many times greater and more diversified than in his college days...
...away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined to think the boarding school would scarcely be as well attended as the liberal university. To be consistent...
...Overseers has been "Moderation," but what could be more extreme than this scheme? We can only trust to the liberality and sound judgment of the members of our faculty to prevent its being put into force. If it is put into force, however, the students will have something to say on the subject...
...very heavy. Caldwell, who stroked the crews of '86 and '87, has clung to his determination not to row this year, in spite of all reports to the contrary. Most of the coaching is being done by Cowles and Rogers, captains of the '86 and '87 crews. Yale men say their crew is not rowing as well as usual at this time of the year, but predict better work on the arrival of the new shell which is expected in a few days, They are very confident of winning at New London...