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Ayres will try for the 'Varsity crew this year...
Columbia will lose only one of her last year's crew this season...
...satisfactory arrangement. The only dispute of importance - that of starting the boats - was settled at once by the decision of the referee. As far as the talk about "eel-grass and lunatic coxswains" is concerned, it is no more than will naturally arise in the case of a beaten crew who, no doubt, honestly believed themselves superior to the victors. Although the talk at Harvard over the preceding race was in marked contrast to the excuses made by Yale for last summer's defeat, still every one pardons the feeling of disappointment which actuates a crew in attempting to justify...
...given last year, and every college man will find many occasions to turn to them. There is to be found a complete list of all games played by the university and class base-ball and foot-ball teams, the lacrosse team and the cricket club. The measurements of the crew, the percentage of the nine and the tables of the best American and English college and amateur athletic records cannot fail to be of interest...
Harvard, Yale and Columbia evince no desire to join the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association. Harvard and Yale experience in the old Inter-collegiate Association was far from pleasing. Whatever was thought to be known about amateur crew rowing ten years ago was supposed to be locked up at Cambridge and New Haven, and when the "potato-digging agriculturists" from Amherst and other "countrymen" pulled away the honors and renown from the scientific "oars" of the great universities, the disappointment was very great. With only two crews in a race the chances of a "win" are far better than with seven...