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...visit of the Columbia crew to England seems to have awakened quite a strong desire to have in America some such annual regatta of college oarsmen as that at Henley. Captain Bancroft has received the following letter on this subject from the Secretary of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
...pecuniary assistance (none of the expenses of the Regatta are to be borne by the colleges), but we desire your advice and approval.... You may not desire to change your eight-oared contest with Yale College, but why should not the proposed races between your crew and Cornell or Columbia be rowed under our auspices, at a regatta open only to college oarsmen, and for the elegant champion plate which we are ready to offer...
Captain Bancroft does not regard the University eight as the champion college crew of America, neither does he wish the English colleges to look upon us as champions. Cornell now holds the championship, though her present crew is by no means identical with the crew that won in 1876. On the other hand Harvard has good reason to believe that her crew of 1878 would make a good race with any college eight that can be got together and trained before next summer. It is the desire of our crew to row against Cornell and any other colleges that...
...Harvard was beaten by Cornell, both Freshman and University, in 1875 and 1876, and in the Fresh man match of 1878. But her present crew has never been beaten. They defeated Yale and Columbia in 1877, and Yale in 1878, and are acknowledged by all judges of rowing to be one of the best collegiate crews ever seen in America. The history of the crew is unparalleled in the annals of University oarsmen. Bancroft rowed in the Freshman crew of 1875, Bancroft and Jacobs in the University crew of 1876 and in the match with Yale; seven of the eight...
...Boston Institute, or the one at Hoboken. . . . If we are to pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having no claims whatever to collegiate prestige. .... If Harvard makes a big strike to get other colleges on the Thames in the university season, I hope the Yale crew will not pat in an appearance. Harvard can't stand...