Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justice to the '84 crew, we would say that while this editorial is, of course, based on their action in adopting the new stroke, yet, in their case, it made not the slightest difference to the university crew, excepting the precedent established...
...Harvard," says the News, "we understand there is no attempt made to run the paper in a remunerative way, but whatever surplus remains at the end of each year is put into a supper." This is good. For the benefit of the News, we would say that this is the first year that this paper has ever come out anywhere near even with its expenses, and that instead of a surplus for a supper, we have hitherto been forced to pay an assessment for our debts. We generally get the supper, but we pay for it ourselves. The News should...
...well known, the class races take place on the Charles River course. For months the four crews have been faithfully training for this event, and for months the college has watched with increasing interest the improvements which have taken place in the different crews. It is probably safe to say that seldom, in any class race, have the four crews been in better condition than they are at present. This is especially true of the three upper classes, who, from their longer experience in rowing, have a decided advantage over the freshman crew, which has, moreover, been weakened recently...
...enthusiasm may be created which will result in raising this sport to its proper place in the estimation of American college men. Its advantages are so apparent, and the pleasure and profit to be derived from its pursuit is so obvious that description is useless. Suffice is it to say that no one who has once experienced the fascinations of the double blade has ever failed to become its warm admirer...
...contemporary of ours, the Notre Dame Scholastic, has been offering us some advice. "Say, boys," exclaims the conversational exchange editor of this sheet, hadn't you better revise your list of the 'Forty Immortals ?' Give a place to Bishop Spaulding and J. Gilmary Shea !" It is with a good deal of hesitation that we reply to this suggestion, for we must admit that until now we never knew that any such literary light was shining in the west as J. Gilmary Shea. And while we have no doubt that both Bishop Spaulding and J. Gilmary Shea are authors worthy...