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...from Princeton to New York and return. At the same meeting a demand from Harvard for $50 to pay for advertising the Columbia-Harvrd game was presented to the Directors. It was resolved that this demand also be not acceded to. When the Harvard faculty took their action with regard to foot ball, the captain of the Columbia football, the captain of the Columbia football team wrote, inquiring whether the scheduled game between Columbia and Harvard should be played. Answer was returned that either the game should be played or that Columbia should pay the advertising expenses already incurred...
...Decay of parts, due to action of weather on unpainted stock, especially of the pin and surrounding wood which fastened the summer to the stringer...
...made to send a strong crew to New London next year in the hope of carrying off the laurels from the crimson. Although we have every reason to expect success on the Thames next year, it may be that we can gain somewhat by following in their line of action as well as by profiting by our own experience. We learn from the News that every incentive is to be offered to rowing men in the shape of a "second eight" as well as a "university four." The former will probably represent the college in the Harlem and other less...
Then the feeling that from this eight, four would be selected to represent the University at Lake George would tend to increase the zeal and interest of the men. We believe that if the Boat Club authorities should decide upon such action, the college at large would show renewed interest in rowing and that increased subscriptions would flow in to cover the necessarily increased expenses of the club. Of course there may be objections to such a scheme, but if Yale can carry on such a system, it would seem strange that it could not flourish here, where we have...
...Clipper says that the recent action of the Harvard Committee in first prohibiting the contest and then permitting it under changed rules repressive of vicious "slugging," unfair "tackling," etc., advertised it, and was the real cause of the enormous crowd which witnessed the Yale game on Thanksgiving...