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Until our beast, scared by a row...
...beginning of last year the Advocate published several articles arguing the question whether University men should or should not be allowed to row at the spring and fall races on their class crews. The articles on one side insisted that to permit them would give an unfair advantage to some of the crews; while the other side maintained that it would be gross unfairness to some classes not to permit their best men to row on the crew which represented them...
...arguments on either side seemed irrefutable. Yet to have the University crew row at the class races would certainly improve and add interest to races that are notoriously in need of improvement. Since it has now been decided finally that these men are not to row on their class crews, it would seem that some plan should be proposed that would make provision for them to row together as a crew in the spring and fall. A strong argument in favor of such a plan was suggested at the time of the discussion in the Advocate, - that...
...each class-crew might send its best man, and they choose the other two; or, better, the crews might meet and elect a captain who would pick out from them five more men. The men would be already trained, so that it would only be necessary for them to row before the race until they had "fallen together...
...still have their case to prove. The chief advantage of the regatta is said to be the increased disposition for physical work which it fosters in the minds of undergraduates generally, by bringing into popularity so healthy an exercise as boating. This it does in two ways, by encouraging rowing among those who train for the race, and among others who row out of pure love for the exercise. But, among students of literary tastes, there will be none corresponding to those in the second class, for no one would be inspired with a deeper love of scholarship or oratory...