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...think there are two causes that are at the bottom of Cornell's lack of success...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Seeing an account in yesterday's CRIMSON that the Boat Club was $575 in debt last year, though reported free of debt, I think it only just to the college to explain how such an error could be made. The first item of $206 was for a Waters shell which the club last year deemed useless. As the boat did not fulfil Mr. Waters' guarantee, the club sent it back to him and refused to pay the above amount. The club this year voted to receive the boat back after he had extensively altered it and paid...
...about. There are certain obstacles, however, which would have to be met and overcome. In the first place, the colleges in this country would want to compete with a representative 'varsity crew, not with a crew which pretended to represent only one of the colleges of the university. I think Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and possibly the University of Pennsylvania, would be willing to compete in such a race...
...fact that the Jesus College crew wishes to come over is encouraging. I think it would be the first of a series of international races. What I would like to see would be the winning 'varsity eight in England meet the winning 'varsity eight in the United States every year, first in England, then in this country. Such a series of meetings would create a most desirable fraternal feeling between the colleges of the two countries, - Herald...
...From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived...