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...attitude of Cornell relative to the refusal of Harvard and Yale to row her crew is hardly sound to say the least. There are two valid reasons for the refusal. Neither Harvard nor Yale can be expected to enter a three cornered race or to row two races. In view of these facts it is hardly to be supposed that either will forfeit its engagement with the other in order to enter a race with Cornell, particularly when the interest of both colleges and of the country centres upon the Harvard and Yale race more than upon any one event...
Speaking generally there seems to us no valid reason why Harvard should not have a successful team this year as well as any year. Her facilities for practice are certainly as good as those of any other college, and her amount of amount of possible material clearly greater. All that is needed, therefore, is a little real energy. We cannot afford, no college represented at Mott Haven can afford, to let a single event pass uncontested when there is even a possible chance of victory. By neglecting to send a team this year we reduce materially our chances of winning...
...will of course request a freshman race, as will also Yale. That is to be taken for granted. The question, then, is of a choice between the two, since it is not likely our crew will consent to row a three cornered race. Now there seems to us no valid reason why Harvard should row Columbia this year. The record of Harvard-Columbia freshman races shows an easy superiority for Harvard. In addition to this our defeat of two years ago-the only special argument which Columbia can now pretend to urge-was completely wiped out by the victory...
...Princeton's evidence incriminating Harvard's players it seems rather to have been a second thought than otherwise. If Princeton has valid protests to raise against Harvard's team we fail utterly to see why these were not made at the New York convention when our challenged players appeared to answer any charges made against them, It must be remembered that the threat, or perhaps we ought to say the warning, of Princeton's manifesto has not as yet been pointed with any very telling evidence...
...help along the end for which class games have partially been organized-the awakening of a permanent and general enthusiasm for football. An organization so well-to-do as the football association certainly cannot refuse the cups on the ground of expense, and there can scarcely be any other valid reason for neglecting to act in the matter...