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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I was surprised to read in your editorial columns on Tuesday, Jan. 16th, that I officially had authorized the statement that the challenge of the Yale Boat Club would undoubtedly be accepted. I beg to state that these remarks were made by me at least six weeks ago, and were intended simply as an expression of my private opinion. By correcting this mistake you will greatly oblige...
CHAS. P. CURTIS, JR.,Pres. H. U. B. C.We owe an apology to the president of the Boat Club for conveying the idea that his mere expression of opinion was an official statement...
...promises to resemble some of his earlier books rather than his last. The first instalment opens the story in Boston among familiar streets - the Common, with its "Brewer Fountain and its four seasons of severe drouth" - and concerns itself with a Miss Helen Harkness, who "danced through Harvard," (mystifying statement) was graduated, and proposed to by several of the men of her class, whom she judged were all silly, and accordingly refused...
...Yale crew, which deem it "extremely discouraging to begin active training while in a state of uncertainty as to whether a race is to be rowed or not," we would once again state that there is no doubt whatever about Harvard's accepting Yale's challenge. We make this statement not upon our own authority but upon the authority of a gentleman who certainly ought to be well informed regarding the matter - the president of the boat club...
...Record we hope will accept this statement as authoritative, and convey to their crew the assurance which cannot fail to encourage them, that our crew is now in active training for the race and do not seem discouraged about the uncertainty of the event...