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...Ames, '66, agreed with Mr. Roberts, and thought that the meeting should express a decided opinion which should influence, but not bind, the committee to be appointed to take final action. At the close of these remarks the question was put, and the meeting voted that it was in favor of withdrawing. Total number of votes, 80, - Yeas, 52; Noes...
LAST night a meeting was held in Lower Holden to discuss the question whether Harvard should withdraw from the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Mr. Weld, President of the H. U. B. C., opened the meeting by saying that it was the unanimous opinion of the Executive Committee that the advice of our delegates to the late convention should be accepted, and that Harvard should withdraw. He gave some of the reasons which led the Committee to form this opinion, and which were mainly those stated by one of the delegates in an article in our last number entitled "Harvard...
...Wendell Goodwin, '74, hoped that the matter would be fully discussed before the question was decided. He admitted that the action of the last convention had been childish in the extreme; but he thought that the meeting should consider three points: First, Is it right for Harvard to withdraw? Second, Would it be better for her to withdraw? Third, Would it not be better for the general rowing interests of all the colleges that she should withdraw...
...that, in his opinion, this meeting should not take definite action, but should express its opinion, and leave the final decision to be made by the Executive Committee, together with a committee of graduates; and this he put in the form of a motion. He explained further that the question was one of too much importance to be decided without having the opinion of graduates of some years' standing, and without consulting their wishes. This met with some opposition from undergraduates, but the idea was supported by Mr. Warren, of '75, who thought, too, that we owed something...
...graduate in New York or Boston who was in favor of our withdrawing without a settled policy being marked out for the future. Their opinions might be changed by the arguments which had been presented. When Harvard started the association she considered it a temporary thing. He thought the question should be decided finally by the undergraduates, but that they should have the advice of graduates...