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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...club boats will be ready for use next Monday, Oct. 28. Tickets, $3.00 apiece, entitling the holder to the use of the boats this autumn, can be obtained from any member of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. No one will be allowed to row in the scratch races who has not a ticket. In order to put a stop to the carelessness with which boats are handled, it is found necessary to make a rule that every man who injures boats or oars shall be held responsible for the amount of repairs...
...there are any who are anxious for such professional distinction, and feel that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have no right whatever to prefix the word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish...
...time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race. There is room enough in the Basin for a two-mile straightaway race, or for a three...
...committee was then appointed to lay out a track immediately on Jarvis Field. As to lay a proper cinder track would require so much time as to leave none for training, it was decided to make a sod track, and it is thought that it will be fit for use on Monday of next week...
Jarvis, to be sure, seems as fur from being ready for use as ever. Such a piece of botch-work as all the so-called repairs on this field have been is not often seen. A meeting at Beacon Park, however, would be much better than no meeting at all, and would serve to keep alive the interest in athletics. Will not the officers of the H. A. A. consider this matter...