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...boat club has had a crew in training for several months to row four-mile races with Yale and with Columbia; if these resolutions are to be enforced as they stand, the whole course of training will have to be changed, thus impairing our chances of victory; unless Yale agrees to the rules, the prime purpose for which the crew is in training will have to be abandoned, as the race cannot be rowed. In case the race with Yale is abandoned, it is believed that the race with Columbia will not cause sufficient interest to keep the crew together...
...what an amateur is according to the strict ruling. For by the ordinary custom it is acknowledged that a man who ceases to be an amateur becomes at once a professional. There is no halfway position. If the faculties should determine to hold strictly to this customary ruling our crew would find itself deprived of the services of their present efficient coach, and our faculty would be unable to prevent it if the others made up their minds on the point. This only goes to show in what a careless manner very much of the new scheme was drawn...
...regard to this rule, we must object strongly to a limitation, which, if enforced, would deprive our crew of the right of rowing an amateur race with such crews as that of the Union Boat Club of Boston, or the Narragansetts: which would deprive our foot-ball eleven of the privilege of playing games with amateur elevens from Canada, or even with a picked eleven composed of graduates from this college; our base-ball nine from playing with the Beacons, (with whom an annual series has been played in past years), our cricket eleven from playing with the amateur elevens...
...That no student shall be allowed to take part in any intercollegiate contest as a member of any club, team, or crew for more than four years...
Captain Bob Cook, who undertook to coach the Yale crew this winter and spring, finds that he will be unable to devote the necessary amount of time to the work. Hull, the captain of last year's crew, has been persuaded to complete the task. Mr. Hull was the great exponent of the "yank," which proved so disastrous the last two years, and he has had to receive considerable instruction himself in the English stroke of Captain Cook. For this purpose he recently spent a fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed...