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...MEETING of the H. U. B. C. was held Tuesday evening last, and considerable business was transacted. It was decided that the class races should be held on Saturday, May 31, hour of the day not set. The Executive Committee considered the proposed plan of presenting the boat-house to the College. The Corporation will vote under what conditions they will receive it. Were it not for the loss which the College suffered by the recent fire, it would probably be received with its present indebtedness; but, as matters now are, this can hardly be hoped for. The original cost...
...Higginson says that this scholarship will produce emulation between the high scholars or the colleges similar to that between the boat-crews at the Regatta; the Nation thinks this emulation would be a feature disastrous to the good effects of the system, and seems to entertain a very poor opinion of the College Races for this very reason, that they foster such great rivalry between men for the sake of mere glory. We find it hinted that the time may come when the college authorities will forbid these brutal displays, and that the art of rowing may be sufficiently well...
...emulation which the Nation considers so dreadful a thing, we cannot see any harm in fair rivalry between different persons for a good object, whether it be in boat-racing, in scholarships, or in anything else. It is the unavoidable concomitant of every struggle where all cannot win, and does more good than harm. It may be said that the fame of winning this scholarship will be a partial inducement to the contesting student. Such will undoubtedly be the case until young saints come to college and human weaknesses are known only to the uneducated...
Jenny Adams and Mattie Page, who went home with me last vacation, you remember, are matched for a two-mile pull, from the boat-house down, to-morrow morning. They're selling pools up stairs...
...glad to announce that the Executive Committee of the Harvard Boat Club will soon publish a small hand-book, illustrative of the style of rowing now in vogue at Harvard. It is to be issued in pamphlet form, after the manner of a similar work printed at Oxford, England, some ten years...