Word: freshmen
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...three letters written for the Crimson in January and February of last year, I pointed out some of the obstacles and dangers in the way of attempting to manage a Freshman race at New London within a week of the Harvard-Yale race, and argued that, if the Freshmen of Harvard ('82) insisted on rowing their projected race with Columbia, they would find it to their advantage to accept the offer of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, which was then making a creditable (though, as the result has proved, an ineffective) attempt to establish an "American Henley," by offering...
Last spring, however, when the representatives of two new sets of Freshmen ('83) appeared at New London to "make arrangements for a race," the managers insisted unequivocally that it should not be rowed on the Thames until at least six days after the Harvard-Yale race. They also gave the Freshmen to understand that they had better select Lake George or Philadelphia or Saratoga, or some other course where good management would gladly be promised them, instead of New London, where their presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race...
...spectators been large enough to make the receipts exceed the expenses by $1,000, the managers would have been opposed to undertaking another Freshman race; but as the attendance was insignificant, in the face of the most favorable circumstances conceivable for attracting people who like to look at Freshmen, the experiment confirmed beyond hope of change the original belief of those managers. They now plainly say, "We will have no more Freshmen races at New London...
...therefore, the challenge of Columbia's Freshmen ('84) is accepted at Cambridge, it must be accepted for a race on some other course than the Thames. Perhaps I may, in another letter to your paper or the Advocate, try to exhibit some of the reasons which make the task of management on this particular course peculiarly arduous as well as expensive. I wish, too, that I had the power to make the undergraduates of both colleges realize more clearly the necessity of having a solid financial basis for the good management of their annual boat race. The "transportation interest" supplies...
...historic name of "Harvard" publicly championed upon the water by her youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident the annual Harvard-Yale race...