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...first number of this year's Magenta it was asserted, in an article descriptive of last Class-Day, that the interest in Class-Day was slowly dying out, and that something must be done to renew it, or we should soon see the annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...
...much for externals. The chief reason for a decline of the interest felt in Class-Day may be found in the great increase of our classes. While the classes were one third or one half the size they are now, Seniors, with a few exceptions, could invite nearly all their friends in the vicinity to come and enjoy all the Class-Day exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme...
MUCH can be said against the custom of intercollegiate Freshman races, as well as for it. In the article in the last Advocate, the argument that these races were needed to awaken the boating interest of the class was dismissed with the assertion that the success of the new system was all that was needed for that purpose. The new boating system will undoubtedly be a great incitement to Freshmen, and more of them will row habitually than ever before. But this does not prove that from increased knowledge alone, such an interest in boating will be aroused...
...Springfield last summer must find it hard to believe that there is anything else which can rouse such an enthusiasm for boating affairs as was stirred up by the race at that time. There were far more Freshmen at Springfield than men from any other one class, and the interest was such that there was not a man but wished either to be on the crew himself or to express his sympathy with the oarsmen. The result of the race by no means killed this interest, and the manner in which the defeat was borne gave some idea...
...usual number of misfortunes in their boating men, they have a crew in training which bids fair to be the best Freshman crew seen here, since the one which '74 sent to Ingleside. If this crew goes to Saratoga, and the class follows to see their race, the boating interest of '77 will be settled on a firm basis, and when they have once established the reputation of a boating class, - and there is no reason why they should not, - the reputation is sure to be kept...