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Subsequent events are best recited in the following statement, published at the time in Columbia's behalf...
...Winthrop, captain of the eleven; W. Fuller, captain of the nine. It was voted also that the action of the crew in electing Mr. Burch their captain be ratified. Mr. Burch then explained the need of a new set of oars, which were immediately voted. Mr. Rousmaniere, on behalf of the committee on heliotype albums, stated that the price was reduced to $12 in case of one hundred subscribers, one-half of which number has already been obtained. It was then moved and carried that committees of two each from the Hasty Pudding Club...
...wish, in behalf of the executive committee, to thank most heartily, for their efficient aid, the assistant treasurers of last year, Messrs. Agassiz, Baylies, Chapman and Sexton, of the class...
...close, permit me through your columns to express to the students at Harvard the gratification with which all Columbia students regard the great friendliness which has grown up between the two colleges; and in behalf of my fellow-students to thank you all for your always courteous treatment, which causes us when we are defeated by you, although feeling badly for ourselves, nevertheless to rejoice that there is one more feather for Harvard...
...freshmen, and silly as the custom may at first seem, it is, nevertheless, a most interesting one. The sophomore orator in a supposed humorous speech, gives away that for which "Providence has shaped our ends," as one said not long ago, and the freshman orator then accepts in behalf of his class, and at once proceeds to give as good as he receives if he is able...