Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...University Crew will not row during the recess...
...open; but we cannot help thinking that these same men would be better satisfied if they felt that they were appointed by the meeting at large, rather than by a committee which was previously instructed to nominate them. If it be necessary for the Captain of the Nine and Crew to have an Executive Committee subservient to them, then it will be better to give up holding meetings of the University, in which there is no chance for open nomination, and where an unprejudiced student feels himself out of place, or, at best, merely the echo of those...
...Harvard Freshman involves the name of the College to some extent, and often to outsiders to the full extent. Objection 3 admits that "the rustic dweller on the shores of Owasco Lake, or the respected citizen of Knox County, N. Y., may have taken the Freshman for the University Crew;" if, on the ground of the race, that opinion prevailed, there is every reason to suppose that the further off one got, - especially if at the same time further from Cambridge, - the more prevalent that opinion would have been found; the more so if one of the largest newspapers...
...greater importance than the act itself; it indicates a division of interest and purpose which is in great measure the cause of our many recent failures, which are due more to the lack of centralization of our forces than any thing else. The Captain of our Crew complains of not being backed up sufficiently. A considerable part of this lack of interest is due to the much-written-of Harvard indifference, but a larger part than is generally supposed is caused by the lack of centralization of interest as well as energy...
...Columbia race. It is not impossible, too, that a training table might be dispensed with for a part of the time before the class races if there were to be no outside race; but, even if it were not, the expense beyond the class race for keeping up the crew would be $300 while in Cambridge, and $500 in New London, making $800. Add to this the expenses of the coach, treasurer, & c., and the extra expense is, at a low estimate...