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...visit of the Columbia crew to England seems to have awakened quite a strong desire to have in America some such annual regatta of college oarsmen as that at Henley. Captain Bancroft has received the following letter on this subject from the Secretary of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
SINCE the above was in print, we have received from the Superintendent of the Post Office a letter which we print in our Correspondence and to which we would call special attention. Its friendly spirit makes any comment of our own unnecessary...
...Courant complains that some of the foot-ball team "are studiously careless about their diet, keep unseasonable hours, and indulge themselves." To judge from the boating editorial and the letter from a graduate, there seems to be a feeling of dissatisfaction at our willingness to row Cornell and Columbia. We make the following extracts from the letter...
...been held, and has adopted the suggestions made at the dinner; and a challenge for an eight-oared race of four miles has been received from Cornell. It is stated on good authority that Columbia is eager for a race. Mr. Roberts has been authorized to write an unofficial letter to England to ascertain whether it will be possible to arrange a race with the English University eights for August 1, 1879. The Faculty are unwilling to let the Crew leave Cambridge before the end of the spring term, so it is impossible to fix upon an earlier date...
...oarsman in seeing our crew row, and he considered it a very good one. Captain Bancroft, in an appropriate speech, presented Mr. Watson with a bronze vase, given him by the crew as an expression of their gratitude toward him. Mr. Roberts then rose, and proposed that a letter be sent to Oxford and to Cambridge by the Secretary, unofficially, asking if they would accept a challenge to row an eight-oared race about the first of August on the Putney-to-Mortlake course; he wished first, however, to impress upon Mr. Watson the necessity of his going as coach...