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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Permit me through your columns to make a statement in defence of the management of your boat club. The writer of the editorial in Saturday's issue of the CRIMSON showed himself woefully ignorant of matters connected with the boat club, and so incompetent to make such a severe criticism of its management. He asks for an itemized account of the sum of $693.48 for wages. Any one acquainted with rowing affairs knows that there is a janitor in the boat-house, a skilled workman, who for years has received as wages $60 a month. Sixty times...
...same time we see clearly that the falling off of a thousand dollars in the subscriptions since the year before, has tended to leave a larger amount unpaid now than there would otherwise have been. Deplorable as this is it seems to show a belief among the students that they ought not encourage the expenditure of so much money...
...college authorities recognize the necessity of instituting a change. As for the specific remedies suggested by this article, they are so eminently sensible that we hope to see them carried out. It the board of directors have any vitality at all in them they have a chance to show it now by following the path that this outsider has so clearly pointed out to them...
...issue. The gentleman who gave himself the pains to investigate the management of the hall is a man of very high standing in New York City, and his purpose was of the most disinterested kind. The results of his investigations as partially given in our article of yesterday, show that he approached the matter in detail, with the earnest purpose of suggesting real and practical improvements. The proposition that the college ought to employ a salaried official to control the actions of the steward and to keep an actual watch on the nature of the food served, in place...
...further the interests of the college and secondarily the class, and it would be well for them to realize the extent of this responsibility. It is Yale's claim that every man who signifies his intention of becoming a candidate for any team shall be given an opportunity to show his worth and that the best men shall be chosen, regardless of position. If the idea once gets a footing that the above is not Harvard's position in regard to athletics as well as Yale's, it will deter many men from making our college their home...