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...Yocum has been compelled to leave the freshman crew...
There is a movement to withdraw the Oxford-Cambridge race in future from the Thames and London crowds, and remove it to Henley. The professionals don't think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends have made the event fashionable, and added to this is the tremendous "spurt" which national taste has given to all kinds of out-door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes...
...Princeton correspondent of the New York World writes: "Princeton men have never been very enthusiastic on the subject of boating, but more interest is taken in it now than for several seasons past. This is shown both by the number of candidates training for the crew, and by the amount of the subscriptions pledged in their support." Its letter from Pennsylvania University, dated last Thursday, says: "The boating outlook here is decidedly flattering, and there are between thirty and forty men in regular training. The general feeling seems to be favorable to the acceptance of all challenges, so confident does...
After a short and disgraceful career '85 quietly passed away, from an illness resulting from over-exertion in attempting to raise a crew...
Capt. Hammond of the Harvard 'Varsity Crew met President Bigelow of the Yale Navy at New London Tuesday, for the purpose of arranging the date of the annual race. After several hours' discussion, President Bigelow submitted to Capt. Hammond the proposition that the race should be rowed this year on Friday, June 30, the date that Harvard desires, on condition that Yale names the date in '83 and '84, provided either the Thursday or Friday immediately following commencement day is named. President Bigelow said he had no authority to make this proposition binding on Yale's part, but that...