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...time the regular Harvard-Columbia race will in no way be rendered doubtful by the crowding necessarily made by a third crew. We therefore consider that the matter has been settled in a way impartial to all. The race ought not to be endangered because another college wishes to enter it, and so Harvard has consented to row a second race to meet the difficulties. We trust Yale will meet us and accept...
Last year we made an exception to a custom of long standing; this year we would no longer make an exception, but go very far towards establishing a new practice. Yale's being admitted this year, means, practically, admittance every year. If we permit Yale to enter this race, the time does not seem to be very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga...
...gives personal supervision to the squad, the exercise is varied, lively and interesting, and there is nothing in it like the monotonous work of the crews. We advise the freshmen for their own physical gain, and the pleasure they will derive from it to go to Mr. Lathrop and enter their names for the squad; of course we do not advise any feeble-bodied or ridiculously unfit persons to occupy places that would better be filled by others; but men who fancy they possess any ability for any branch of track athletics ought not to be timid about presenting themselves...
Columbia will probably enter a crew at the next Intercollegiate Regatta...
...examinations will be marked according to the new college standard of marks. Another new thing is the provision that allows a student to take his preliminaries and final during the same year. Although this new system of entrance examinations goes into force this year, any one desiring to enter on the old conditions (from having taken already the preliminaries or from some such reason) may do so, for 1887 only by making formal application before...