Word: make
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...wish to plead for the establishment of courses in Ancient and Modern English, which shall make the attainment of Final Honors a possibility. Honors in Modern Languages are based mainly on French and German. But there are no motives to urge men to a careful study of English, except the excellence of the instruction given, or love for the subject. Is our literature, then, so deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward...
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...
...constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of 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...
...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...
...served to strengthen them in that theory. They believe, furthermore, that the people of New England who take pleasure in seeing a short, sharp, and decisive trial of strength between her two oldest and most famous colleges, will always be attracted to New London in numbers sufficiently great to make the profits of transporting them pay for the costs of good management; and they have no intention of ruining their own present prestige by attempting a complicated 'regatta' which might attract a larger crowd than they could safely control...