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...Harvard Graduate's Magazine for October, 1892, is an article by F. W. Thayer '78 entitled "Harvard's Loss of Athletic Prestige...
Many of Mr. Thayer's statements are appropriate today. "Last fall, "he writes concerning Yale's victories on the gridiron, "under the same management against which, in victory, no adverse criticism had been heard, Harvard lost the game. Abuse from all sides was immediately poured in upon the gentlemen who had given all their time, thought, and attention for many weeks." This abuse caused the resignation of the coaches, for the article continues: "A coach, once secured, should be kept for a series of years, and, if necessary, paid a salary...
...Thayer's remarks on the crew situation are no longed quite so timely as they would have been a few years ago, before Coach Stevens assumed his present position. Apparently it was as difficult to get a successful crew coach in 1890 as it was 30 years later...
...several such struggles in the CRIMSON's history,, was one of the reasons for the gradual swing of the contents of the CRIMSON away from literary essays and poems to matters of the day. Although the fortnightly CRIMSON contained among its editorial boards such names as William Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and Owen Wister, it had its narrowest escape from extinction in 1882, nine years after its birth. Financially on the rocks, the CRIMSON was all but ready to surrender and be absorbed by its rival; only by a margin of one vote was the merger project defeated...
Candidates for the post of manager of the quintet will report at 7.30 o'clock tonight in Thayer 31. Their competition will last eight weeks, and a manager and an assistant manager, each to win numerals, will be appointed...