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...operation of launching and housing an eight-oar is at present attended with considerable difficulty, which will be done away with when the bridges...
...proposed to circulate a paper at Memorial to receive the signatures of those who are willing and desire to stay in the hall with even the present rates for board. There are undoubtedly many who would prefer this alternative to the closing of the hall...
...instead of heaping reproach upon the directors, and all may run smoothly yet, the board will be better and the price lower. The first important measure for the committee, or whoever has the care of such matters, is to prosecute a strict inquiry as to the cause for the present stampede, and if any person or persons are to blame, to make known the fact. There must be some reason for such wide-spread dissatisfaction, and the only way to restore the lost patronage is to seek it out, acknowledge and eliminate it. We speak thus strongly upon the subject...
...Resolved, That as the auditor states that the price of board for February will probably be $5.42 per week, which is the result of there being only a few over three hundred men at present in the association, that the hall be closed on the evening of Wednesday, March 22d, provided that in the meantime the membership of the association has not increased to four hundred and twenty-five...
...practically that of 1880. This year neither crew can plead inexperience. "Yale retains of last season's crew Guernsey, Storrs, Folsom, Hull and F. W. Rogers, also Merritt and Parrott, who trained and acted as substitutes." It will be a race between veterans. A Yale man thinks that "The present material is first-rate; the training is quite satisfactory, though it has not been so strict as in some former years. It will be a hard crew to beat.' And the correspondent continues: "This last conclusion would occur to almost any one. All the men booked for places are 'beefy...