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...greatest competitive event-the Yale race-are the ones who advance our boating interests the most throughout college in general. Do away with this Yale race, and our class races would feel the effect materially, and might possibly, in the course of time, themselves drop out. As the University crew is the keystone to all boating interests, so in each branch we can find a competing body which gives life to the rest. Thus the faculty, in making regulations which materially hurt the element of competition, in our athletics, are aiming a home thrust at physical training itself under...
...sophomore crew are now rowing 300 strokes every afternoon...
...probable coxswain of the Yale University crew weighs only sixty-four pounds...
...freshman crew must remember that they will in all probability have formidable opponents in the persons of the Columbia freshmen. This latter crew at an impromptu regatta held last fall defeated the crews of the upper classes, although they, '87, were totally wanting in experience. The only thing that was in their favor was that they had trained a couple of weeks, while the old oarsmen went into the race relying on their previous knowledge. This was, of course, a considerable advantage to the freshmen. Nevertheless, Columbia, '87, has been notable so far for the push and energy which they...
...vast body of learning in existence, but as yet no common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who is not undergraduate, but who rows or plays ball as a matter of business, it seems rather hard that a college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university...