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Princeton.- Want of interest made the fall meeting of the Athletic Association unsuccessful...
Having occasion lately to consult this work, I found quite a long description of Cambridge and Boston, a few extracts from which may be of interest to students of an antiquarian turn of mind...
MANY reasons have recently been given for the decline of our interest in rowing, one of which is thought by several boating men to deserve some attention. The cups for which the crews contend in the spring and autumn races are of the most ordinary description; those won in the last club-race being little superior to those offered in scratch-races. It is the opinion of prominent boating men that if finer cups were offered there would be more rivalry among the crews, and a greater desire to row on them. Such a result would, of course, bring many...
Possibly it costs no more in college now than it did in '60, but the figures certainly show that more is spent now than was spent then. But this point may be cleared up, for more articles on the same subject are to follow. The subject is one of interest, and these investigations have a decided value...
...other colleges the interest in boating seems constantly increasing, and manifests itself in the most substantial form by offering an abundance of large, strong men as candidates for seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness...