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Umpire, Mr. Crane, Fall River Club...
LAST Monday, at Springfield, the details of the race on the 30th of June were settled. Mr. Howe represented Yale, and Mr. Weld and Mr. Otis, Harvard. According to the agreement entered into last fall, the umpire was chosen by lot from two candidates nominated by the colleges. The lot fell to Professor H. M. Wheeler of Yale. The time of day for the race was then considered. Yale preferred to row in the morning, while Harvard favored the afternoon, as it would be more convenient for spectators. It was finally settled that the time of day should...
...this year, and yet on the river there is now much less activity than there was at the same date last year. There is but one explanation of this state of affairs. The novelty of club races has passed away, and any one who has watched the decline and fall of interests in college amusements other than boating will not be surprised. There is not the slightest doubt that we in college have some traits in common with the inhabitants of the nursery. We have an abundance of new toys, and we are always ready to discard our last plaything...
...this fear of a lack of money support, more than an apprehension that the counsel offered in the Advocate will be ultimately adopted, which induces us to present the other side of the question. Without disputing that the game of foot-ball can be played later into the fall than other sports, and consequently more men can engage in it, we do not consider this any reason for neglecting the sport in the spring. In our opinion, the University is large enough to allow of each sport being well represented at any season of the year, and it is certainly...
...lower classes, indeed! And, pray, who are the lower classes? Are they those whose hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship...