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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me, through your columns, to thank those who have so courteously sent a prompt reply to my recent appeal for subscriptions to the University crew. These thanks, I regret very much to say, will not reach as many persons as I could have wished. Out of over two hundred and fifty blanks sent out by me but one hundred have been returned to date. Considering the fact that two hundred of these blanks were accompanied with stamped envelopes already addressed, the showing is a poor one. The freshmen, in particular, are very slow in answering this...
...question have up to this time made the false assumption that very few men receive benefit from inter-collegiate athletics. It is natural for one who knows nothing of the training of the candidates for the various teams through the winter to imagine that the nine, the crew and the contestants at the inter-collegiate athletic games are the only men who receive benefit from college sports, and it is a subject for congratulation that a college undergraduate who understands the inside workings of the system knows how to express himself in clear and forcible English, has come forward...
Even undergraduates are very apt to have an inadequate conception of the amount of influence exerted directly by inter-collegiate sports on college students. The assertion that fully one-sixth of the students of Harvard College were during the winter in training for teams and crews which will represent us in inter-collegiate contests this spring, would probably be credited by very few who have not looked into the matter for themselves. And yet such an assertion would be true. Out of the 928 undergraduates of the college, including special students, there were 150 who trained more or less faithfully...
...communication of the treasurer of the University crew, in another column, shows that he has not been seconded by the college at large as well as he had a right to expect, in his endeavors to raise the subscriptions necessary for the support of the crew. It is certainly but courtesy to return the stamped envelopes, but to pay no attention to them shows a want of consideration of the time and trouble the treasurer of the crew is obliged to give to these matters...
...VARSITY CREW - C. F. Gilman...