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...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...
...those who are acquainted with captain Storrow, no guarantee is necessary that the Boat Club will be run this year as prudently, wisely, and economically as is possible. As to the question of blazers for the crew, which apparently gave rise to the discussion of this subject, I think that all Harvard men ought to have some little pride in the appearance of their representative crew. There is every bit as much reason in the crew having a costume peculiar to itself, as in the nine, or foot-ball team, or lacrosse team, having such a uniform. It has been...
...even with this great inducement of blazers. Mr. Sexton asks why the crew should not have uniforms as well as the other athletic teams. They do have uniforms, both for exercising, and for contests. Do the other teams have loafing uniforms to keep up their esprit de corps? We think...
...editorial he mentions cast no reflection upon Captain Storrow, nor was it intended as Mr. Sexton seems to think, to lessen in any degree the subscriptions to the crew. Far from it. It's mission was to advise a cutting down of the expenses a little, so that by greater economy, and with the same or larger subscriptions than last year, all the expenses of the crew may be met and a reduction in the debt begun, instead of an addition made to it, as has too often been the case...
...necessary arrangements are made. A book is opened,- and then what happens? Out of the 250 juniors less than a fifth respond! Can eighty-six, after the reputation it has made for itself in its college career, afford to allow this class dinner fail through sheer indifference? We think not. We even venture to hope that, not 50 only, but 100 juniors will improve this opportunity to revive the smouldering sparks of class spirit which still glows among the dull ashes of "Harvard indifference...