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...CRIMSON has seen fit to "carry the war into Africa," by making the assertion that I am "inaccurate and misleading in one of my most important statements." Let us see how far this will bear investigation: I said, "I think I am right when I say that more money is spent yearly on the Yale crew than on the Harvard crew." Not having the figures at hand to prove this assertion, I was very careful to qualify it so that it should carry no more weight than is ordinarily accorded to an expression of opinion or belief. I rested...
...field, Crocker, who played right field on the Adams Academy last year, Gibson, centre field on the "Gennery" nine, Hollowell, and Swarts are the only applicants at present. When the nine is finally selected, many of those now trying for other positions will try for the out-field...
...inaccurate, has only served to add one more to the many burdens and embarrassments against which the crew has been obliged to struggle this year, its tendency naturally being to check subscriptions, and to lessen the cordial co-operation and moral support which the crew have a right to expect from the college...
...expense of sending a crew to New London to meet Yale and Columbia is undoubtedly large, but that it is due to recklessness of management, or needless expenditures cannot for a moment be maintained. I think I am right when I say that more money is spent yearly on the Yale crew than on the Harvard crew, and that, too, notwithstanding the fact that, owing to the race with Columbia, our crew is obliged to go much earlier to New London, where the expenses are heavy...
...temperance cause is not what it once was, small and unnoticed. All over the United States and England we have to-day on our side the greatest scholars and thinkers, and men of medical genius. The temperance cause is a right one; its principles are lawful, sensible, sane; and it demands and should receive respectful attention from all who love their fellow men. Very largely it has that attention today...