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...crew more than five minutes late will not be allowed to start. Entries close at 8 o'clock to-night...
...that permission has been given to have Theatricals in Boston, there ought to be no difficulty in raising all the funds that the Crew require, especially as the graduates have provided for $10,000 already...
CORNELL ought to be satisfied, now that she has an opportunity to show the boasted superiority of her oarsmen. It is not a Freshman Crew that she will have to meet this time, however...
CORNELL, Columbia, and Yale are in a highly excited state over the prospect of our sending a crew to England. Cornell is particularly irritated, as she claims that the two races she won at Saratoga in six-oars entitle her to the "championship," and that Harvard has no right to go until she has defeated her in an eight-oared race. Yale and Columbia are equally anxious to have a race with Harvard, and let the winner of the race go to England as the "champion" college crew. What the "championship" has to do with it is not very clear...
...should hope that no gentleman or set of gentlemen would aspire to be called "champion" anything. As we understand it, Harvard proposes to send her eight, as Columbia did her four last year, merely as a college enterprise, and, without any regard for "championships" or "representative" college crews, to try if either of the English colleges can do in 1879 what they succeeded in doing in 1869. We have, and have had for two years, the best crew that ever sat in a Harvard boat; and we think that they may possibly be able to defeat the Oxford and Cambridge...