Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVERAL articles in the recent issues of the Yale papers have argued very ably for some radical changes in the management and arrangements of the eight-oar races between Yale and Harvard. A review of the advised changes is given elsewhere, and states the main points succinctly; and boating-men will feel much interest in the theory, which is that of a graduate of some years' standing, who has studied carefully the English system in comparison with our own, and decides in favor of "turn-about races...
...Yale papers have assumed a very religious tone. The Record has become almost High-Church in its views of life. It has determined to mortify the flesh, during the "Lenten season," by refraining from its habitual "pastime of gentle reproof and delicate personalities." Any one who is familiar with the columns of the Record will at once appreciate the extent of its self-denial...
Another writer in the same paper takes a more cheery view of religion at Yale. He thinks there are "unusual indications" of a "revival of thoughtfulness in religious life," and calls for a revival on the Moody and Sankey plan...
LETTERS from a Yale graduate appear in the last Yale papers on the mode of managing the Harvard Yale eight-oar race. The writer appears to have given considerable thought to the subject, and his views may be of interest to our boating...
...have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited. In abandoning the unwieldy National Rowing Association, Yale and Harvard should abandon with it the whole 'tournament' theory. In place of a long-drawn 'week of athletic sports,' they should offer the public a single short, sharp, and decisive University boat-race. Simply that and nothing more...