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...time, before the accounts of the training table have been made public, would be clearly unjust. It is quite as possible, as our correspondent suggests, that the whole scheme was faultily conceived. The lack of a responsible head may wholly account for the failure of the undertaking, or this want of centralization may have been, and very likely was, combined with other bad elements in the original plan. We ourselves do not for a moment believe that any one man was wholly responsible for the failure. What we asked for Saturday, and what we still think eminently desirable...
...first meeting of the Directors of the new Columbia College Athletic Union has just been held. The board recommended that no 'varsity crew should be placed on the water this year on account of the lack of money, and the entire want of interest that Columbia shows in athletics. It was provided however that a mass-meeting of the students should be held to ascertain the opinion of the college at large. Five men of last year's crew are still in college but the three best of these, McKee, Prince, and Pomeroy will be unable to row. There will...
...College Kodaks, number five is distinctly good and number one is not bad. The editorials are, in general, to the point, and one of them, in particular, lays stress on the want of a course in German conversation, - a subject the CRIMSON treated editorially yesterday morning...
There was posted yesterday in the gymnasium a notice asking all men not training with any of the athletic teams who desired to join exercising squads to sign the blue book in the office, in order that the gymnasium authorities might ascertain whether the want was sufficient to warrant their engaging an instructor. Such an instructor would take charge of classes in advanced gymnasium work, such as tumbling, ect. Now that the authorities have taken the first step toward the consideration of a long-felt want we urge upon those who can benefit by a realization of the scheme...
...understand that it is not want of money which prevents this appointment of a regular instructor. If such is the case I cannot see why something has not been done before. The effect of skilled individual instruction in awakening interest has been made sufficiently evident in track and field athletics. It is equally necessary in indoor exercise, and there is every reason to suppose that the same good results would follow...