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...paragraph appeared, by the courtesy of the editors, which contained a provoking blunder, entirely by the fault of the contributor, and not the least of either editor or printer. In the last article but one of the editorial column on page 75 should be read "those who failed to make up Freshman Classical Lectures," not "those Freshmen who failed to make up Classical Lectures." Readers of the Crimson will please make this correction, and accept the apologies of the contrite contributor...
...make the day as successful as possible, no visitor must be allowed to experience the slightest inconvenience, disappointment, or embarrassment. Although certain general arrangements can be made to lighten individual responsibility, the success of the day must largely depend on the tact and forethought of each student...
Harvard thought the exception was therefore a bad one to make; and, moreover, that it might give Columbia a decided advantage over Harvard, - an advantage which our record for the past five or six years has not placed us in a position to yield. Accordingly, a reply was made to Columbia that she could have no advantage which Harvard did not have under her agreements with Yale. Columbia replied that she would "row only a university race," and she desired an answer to her original challenge. An answer was immediately sent, - a refusal...
...work going on at the boat-house. The rowing-machines are first used by the Freshmen. Captain North has two eights in training. His men row six or seven hundred strokes daily, and run about two miles. Several of the Freshmen are well built for rowing, and promise to make good men for the University; and the candidates are, as a whole, equal to the average Freshmen crew. Messrs. Schwartz and Crocker of last year's 'Varsity are coaching them with marked success. Mr. Schwartz in particular gives surprising evidence of a decided talent for coaching, the benefit of which...
...contrasted with the stiffer, more labored, and less efficient efforts of the new men. To the old men rowing seems to be the most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth...