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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This is, of course, only a rough draft of a plan which seems eminently practicable. It will be seen that by this system the championship question will be settled once for all, that we shall have more regularity in the arrangement of games, and hence there will be increased interest in our national game. As regards the expensiveness of this scheme, it must be said that only two meetings of the Executive Committee will be necessary, and, as the expenses will be divided among a number of colleges, they will be of little moment compared with the advantages...
...Executive Committee, i.e. the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Captain of the Crew, elect four other members, one from each class, the whole to form a committee of nine, which should have power over all the business of the Boat Club, - including its policy, - except the question of challenges...
DURING the months of July and August a discussion was carried on in the Nation in regard to the Harvard Divinity School, which attracted much attention, and called forth a number of letters on each side. The main question at issue was, whether the Divinity School was an unsectarian institution or not. As this is a question which has important bearings on the whole character of the University, a short resume of some of the arguments put forward on each side is given below...
...merely a question how badly the blues shall be beaten. Nunn is first out. Then Cohen and Holden hit singles; Coolidge gets his base on an error; Tyng and Ernst take a farewell of Lamb for one base-hit each and Wright comes to the bat. For the third time in this game he drives the ball for two bases, but is left on third as Winsor finishes the game by a foul bound, - Cohen having been run out at third. Result: four more runs; making the total, Harvard 9, Yale...
...first place this victory will have a decided effect upon American college rowing. It has proved beyond further question the superiority of the Harvard stroke, and the worthlessness of the system of rowing in which Yale has persisted. The effect will be to make final the adoption of the English method of rowing in this country...