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Plummer, L. S. S., v. Fearing, '82, Deuce set...
BICYCLING.The page set apart for the Handicap Bicycle race in the Entry-Book is still an unbroken expanse. It should be remembered that any man who can stay on his machine has a chance in this race, and that he will have a half-mile start if that is necessary to equalize him with the scratch man. Let no one despair, therefore, but enter his name anyhow, and, if not satisfied with the handicap, no one is obliged to start. Out of thirty bicycles said to be in college, surely six or eight men can be found willing to enter...
Constitution. - We hope that the first step of the Executive Committee of the H. A. A. will be to provide a Constitution, By-Laws, etc., and a set of rules for every sport which they patronize. All these, when drawn up, submitted, and approved, should be printed in cheap form, and sold to the members at cost price. That an institution of such importance should have been suffered to exist so long without such essential articles is only another instance of the proverbial Harvard indifference...
Another sub-committee appointed will draw up a constitution, with a complete set of rules and regulations, covering as far as is possible all the sports. This constitution is first to be submitted to the whole Executive Committee. and then printed in the College papers, with a request that any member of the Association who sees any alterations to make will please note them in writing and send them to the Committee on the Constitution. It may be of some advantage to the gentlemen of this committee to know that the old constitution which has been so long missing...
...victories that are to be won on land and river in one year. Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake to row a race when the amount of money that can be raised to support the crew...