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...Freshman Scientific Crew has disbanded...
...sign, "Reporters and Loafers are Warned from Here," was put up for these reasons: Reporters and newspaper men had annoyed and hindered us about our training by their impertinent questions, and had, moreover, written insulting and abusive articles on the crew and its members. Reporters came to our boat-house and interrupted us when we were busy, instead of coming to our quarters, as they should, when we were unemployed...
These actions on the part of the "Reporters and Loafers" were beginning to fret and irritate the crew, - a serious matter in training, when the crew should feel in first-rate spirits, and should be kept free from every annoyance that can possibly be avoided...
...however, that the sign was eminently successful, and that after it appeared our annoyances were for the most part ended. The crew, I think, were not ashamed of the sign in any sense, but were rather pleased with its effectiveness...
...When our crew went to Springfield last June, they were annoyed by an army of loafers, who, on account of a real or feigned connection with some newspaper, considered themselves privileged to hammer the shells, occupy the crew's quarters, and cross-examine each man on any point which might suggest itself to the reportorial mind. Now if there are any things which a crew must do, those things are to keep quiet and to keep their own council. What other means could have produced this desired effect we do not know, but it seems to be a settled point...