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...some means of obtaining exercise on the water which should be available to men who are, for various reasons, unable to gain a seat in any of our numerous crews. To meet this want, the canoe club was founded. There can certainly be no pleasanter or more invigorating sport than canoeing, and men who have once experienced the fascination of the double-bladed paddle will not be slow in joining the newly founded club...
...response to the invitation published yesterday, a number of gentlemen met last evening, in Holyoke 35, to consider the advisability of forming a canoe club at Harvard. Among those present were many who take an active interest in the sport, and several gentlemen who were unable to attend were represented by proxy. The balloting for officers of the new club resulted as follows : Commodore. T. Dunham, '85 ; vice-commodore, P. L. Livingstone, '85 ; secretary-treasurer, A. G. Webster, '85. Messrs. T. L. Frothingham, '84, and Webster, '85, were constitute a committee on by-laws. It was voted that the club...
...whose morals would be corrupted by such a contact would never come to it uncorrupted. Besides, a college student would hardly seek the society of a professional for its own sake. On the other hand, the opportunity afforded for the attainment of superior skill and excellence in a sport by competition with masters of the art is not unlike (if the comparison is pardonable) the opportunity afforded to a divinity student in having Phillips Brooks criticize one of his sermons, or lecture to him for an hour upon the duties of his chosen profession. If a thing is worth doing...
...some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating arrangements...
...best features of the English boating system is that, at the universities, provision is made for the men who are unable or unwilling to obtain places on the regular crews, to get a chance to indulge in their favorite sport. At both Oxford and Cambridge the boat-houses are supplied with ordinary rowboats, and the students gladly avail themselves of the opportunity for exercise thus offered. Just now we are agitating the question of forming a canoe club. This will go far toward making aquatic exercise popular among our undergraduates, but if some provision could be made...