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Owing to the difficulties met with in preparing a crew, Princeton may not be represented on the water this year. The feeling is that a crew ought not to be trained for next season, but no definite decision on the matter will be reached until after the holiday recess...
...world. Although the prejudices acquired in nearly four years at Yale have rather incapacitated us for looking with unalloyed delight on the aquatic victories of Harvard, yet in the present instance we confess that we would be more than pleased to see her second eight victorious over the crew which so confidently appealed to the public opinion to award it the championship because no college found it convenient to gratify its frantic demand for a race. [Yale News...
...revival of the boating interest in the Law School and their determination to put a good crew upon the river will give additional interest to the class races this year. It will be another inducement for the crews to work hard, as the men who will fill half of the seats in the new crew were last year reckoned among the best oarsmen in college. It will be practically an '83 crew, and that class always held an enviable position on the water from the time when, as freshmen, they walked away from the other boats in their very first...
...School propose to put an eighth upon the river next spring which shall for them credit in the class races. An eitht has not been formed in this department since 1879 when their crew came in a good third out of the five boats entered. This winter there has been a renewal of the boating fever in the school, and active preparations have begun. Abundant and good material is at hand from which to select, and it will not be difficult for them to find eight men suitable for a race of two miles. At present only...
...true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft, the ex-captain of the Cambridge crew, a young lawyer at the "Hub." receives pay for coaching every spring the wearers of the crimson at New London, in the annual race with Yale. Some other eastern colleges, however, have sinned in this respect more than Harvard. Yale kept her skirts clean until last year, but last summer Jones...