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...look carefully into this matter and consider the true sentiment of the class. In the first place, there was but a trifle over half the members of the class present. It is safe to assume that none of the absent members were very desirous of rowing Cornell, but were indifferent about the matter; and when a man is indifferent about having a crew, he is also very loath to support it with the necessary funds. There were also a few men who did not vote at all, and who, almost without exception, opposed the sending of a crew...
ACCORDING to the Independent it has been decided impracticable at Exeter to compel students preparing for college to pursue the entire course of study demanded for admission to Harvard, and therefore Exeter will cease to be a special feeder for this college. Although this statement is strictly true, its conclusion gives the impression that Exeter has made some change in her course which will greatly diminish the number of men she sends to Harvard. This impression is so erroneous as to require some notice. Evidently it is impracticable for Exeter or for any other academy to compel students...
...regular training, while their opponents have eighteen. There is material for a good crew in the class, and it is time that it should be fully brought out. It requires some self-denial to follow out a steady course of training through the winter months, but this is the true secret of success. Let '81 take a proper interest in the matter, and she will send an eight against Cornell which will do her honor...
...expected that students will develop a true love for the beautiful as long as the college surrounds them with such fearfully homely goodies...
Columbia, in several letters to the New York papers, has distinctly disclaimed any intention to go to England as the Champion College Four. They go merely to represent Columbia College, and the venture shows a pluck and enterprise which every true lover of sport must admire and applaud. The crew, as at present made up, consists of: Bow, R. E. Sage; 2, R. Colgate; 3, C. S. Boyd; Stroke, J. T. Goodwin; Substitutes, G. H. Ridabock and C. Edson...