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...action of the Yale athletes toward the engagement of a professional trainer at the very moment of our discomfiture is another incentive to sustain our past eminence in general athletics. Not that we feel any great need of new vigor, but we know that the newly adopted regime will inevitably make itself felt before long, unless we have pride and perseverance enough of our own to fight against all obstacles. Hitherto Columbia has always been our recognized rival for the cup, and Yale has exhibited a singular indifference to this branch of sports. Now the advent of a new opponent...
...other races to row, adding that the Columbia crew remained simply because it was not aware that the race with Harvard was not to be rowed, and not to practice for any other race, as Columbia College had no other race to row. The meeting finally approved of the action of the directors of the boat club in all matters connected with the difficulty, and also decided to request the directors of the boat club to have a report compiled by its committee. The meeting also determined to request the directors of the boat club to abolish the fall regatta...
...Advertiser, speaking with the tone of authority, thus explains the action of certain Harvard graduates in transmitting to Columbia their censures upon the Harvard crew...
...Globe sustains Harvard in the Columbia matter in spite of the graduates, and says very pertinently concerning the recently published memorial : "It was not then forwarded to Columbia, but now, when both clubs have published clear statements of their action, when the feeling of indignation which prevailed when that paper was signed has in great measure subsided, when the facts which the Harvard representatives rightfully kept to themselves till the proper time for their disclosure (the meeting of the H. U. B. C.) arrived, and now, when it is clear that the whole thing was the result of several misunderstandings...
...trustees of Union College, Schenectady, Thursday, by a vote of 9 to 8 rescinded its recent action asking for President Potter's resignation...