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...hoped that the action of the Henley Stewards with reference to American entries in England will have no serious effect upon the Watkins Glen Regatta. The difficulty all arises from the definition, or rather want of definition, of the word "Amateur." None of the authorities agree in the matter, and it would seem advisable to arrive at some distinct international understanding on the point. Bell's Life says that some clubs include artisans and mechanics in their definition, while others do not, and therefore every one must decide for himself. The real trouble is, not in the definition...
...Freshman class meeting, which was to have taken place on Monday, April 8, to take action relative to their crew, was postponed, as it was impossible to secure a quorum...
Henley Regatta. - The action of the Henley committee in compelling all American crews to enter six weeks before the regatta, and pay their entrance-fees then, is condemned on all sides. No reason can be assigned for such a step save that the English amateurs do not wish to row against oarsmen who are mechanics, and do not come under the head of "gentlemen" as they define the word. Either this or a wholesome fear of American oarsmen has influenced the regatta committee in taking this very unfair and unsportsmanlike stand...
...absence of any action by the College on this subject, - first brought before the alumni by Dr. O. W. Holmes in his letter to the Harvard Club of this city, at their recent annual dinner - I am not aware that any one can be 'authorized' to say that there is no purpose or wish on the part of the college to change their seal. The most that can be fairly said is that the college has not hitherto been called upon to discuss the subject. That the restoration of the original seal, in its grand simplicity, would be favorably entertained...
...days of reviling in the Cornell paper seem to have passed away with the days of rowing; but now, at the first symptom of a revival of the latter, the former awakes in full strength. We are not criticising here the action of the University Boat-Club in challenging Cornell, but simply the Era's manner of receiving the challenge. Cornell has not yet recovered from the evil effects of the management of her papers during the last years of the Intercollegiate races at Saratoga, and now seems to be relapsing. To charge a sister college with mean subterfuges...