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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than as a body. The Nine lose a captain whom it will be very difficult to replace. Many...
...months' experience in rowing. But these are not the only morals to be drawn. One of the causes of '81's ill success this year was the laxity of discipline of the man who held the most responsible position on the crew. His own carelessness and disregard of duty, though not contagious, disgusted and disheartened the men, and fitted them for anything but hard work. Races worth winning cannot be won without a vast amount of conscientious work and self-denial. This is a platitude, we know; but it is a very important one in boat-racing...
...THOUGH public opinion does not seem to have sustained the New York Aldermen in their assertion that the victory at Henley "redounds to the glory of our common country," still the sentiment among college men is that the Columbia boys have done a big thing. They do not enjoy the advantages for exercise and training that some more favored seats of learning possess, and they have a comparatively small number of rowing-men to choose from; but in the face of these difficulties, with the support of a large number of wealthy and liberal graduates, and with Mr. Jasper Goodwin...
...some five or six eight-oared shells on the rests at the boat-house, which could be used for class races for some years to come. It is sincerely to be hoped that rowing is not going to die out among us and become a lost art, though just now things seem tending that way. A decided move, one way or the other, must be made...
...this age of steam, the telegraph, and telephone, affairs move faster than they did a century ago, and there is no time to be spared on the proser; certainly not in busy Cambridge, though here the species is not yet extinct, as the experience of many students will attest...