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...meeting of the Harvard University Boat Club, held in Cambridge on Oct. 3, the Harvard-Columbia race was thoroughly discussed, and it was unanimously voted that the crew be exonerated from all blame in the matter, and be justified in having taken the course it did. It was also voted that the secretary of the Boat Club prepare an account of the facts as stated at that meeting, and cause it to be published in the New York and Boston papers. In accordance with this vote, I have prepared the following statement, which gives the facts of the case...
...conditions, to row at 12 or not at all. Col. Bancroft crossed the river to the Columbia quarters, and went with Messrs. Goodwin, Cowles and a third member of the Columbia party into a room apart from the other men, and, in accordance with his instructions from the Harvard crew, stated that Harvard would row at 12 or not at all. Mr. Goodwin said that the Columbia crew would not row between the hours of 10 and 1. Col. Bancroft then said, "Well, what are we going to do?" Mr. Goodwin asked whether it was Harvard's ultimatum. Col. Bancroft...
Harvard's reason for leaving New London was because the crew supposed in good faith that the race had been given up. To sum up, it is claimed that, technically, Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit, it would have so claimed it; that upon hearing of Columbia's sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily and as a matter of courtesy kept off the course on June 24, at the hour named for the race; that when, two days later, Harvard agreed to row Columbia after...
...Goodwin, who was then coaching the crew at New London, and Captain Cowles at once saw Messrs. Watson and Bancroft, the Harvard coaches, and told them that, if necessary, the race for the next day must be declared...
...Both the Harvard representatives acknowledged the propriety of this action, but hoped that Columbia would decide to row Harvard within a reasonable time, so that the event for which both crews had been so long preparing would not be entirely abandoned. It was at Harvard's request, therefore, that the Columbia crew decided not to disband. The Columbia captain thanked the Harvard representatives for their proposition and at once said that any day would be agreeable to his crew, but it must be after Mr. Benjamin's funeral. The day was then set by Harvard as Monday, July...