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SIXTEEN men have been chosen at Yale to try for the University Crew, and they will begin training immediately after the Christmas vacation...
...this case are these, that Captain Bancroft has coached them whenever he could spare the time, and when he has been prevented from doing this, other members of the first eight have taken his place. It seems as if the men who are now rowing in the University Crew ought to know enough about pulling an oar to coach the second eight and coach them well. At any rate the second eight are doing good work, and the only thing to complain of is the small number of men who are actively interested in working for positions...
...beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means essential, as Oxford was not challenged to row the "champion" American crew, but simply Harvard University. This is the reason of our "indifference" about the Cornell and Columbia race. Cornell has everything to gain and nothing to lose; with us it is just the reverse. We asked her in a gentlemanly way to give us a little time to complete our negotiations...
...have received, too late for publication, a letter from a gentleman in '82 who complains of the hasty selection of twelve men to train for the Freshman crew. He suggests, as all would be applicants cannot row on the hydraulic machines, that they be set to work on the weights in the Gymnasium, and the selection be made after the real merits of the men are known. We are not familiar with all the facts in the case, but we do not believe any applicant will be prevented from trying for the crew...
...Courant is non-committal on the subject of an American Henley, but suggests that there be a single race for class crews. There is another boating letter from "A Yale Graduate," from which we clip the following: "Our sister university is undoubtedly cock of the walk as regards rowing, at least for the present, and she knows it. We admire her wonderful crew, as does everybody else, and say 'Go over the water, friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels...