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...this is extremely necessary if the project of going to England to row with Oxford is entertained. If they go there it will take from $6,000 to $10,000, and the Yale alumni don't want to go to that expense unless they are sure they can send over a winning crew. If Yale is not dispirited and disheartened this year at foot-ball, and if the University crew shows up in good form the English boys many have a chance to test the excellence of the Yale crew.- N. Y. Herald...
...criticize our teams, and it is a task for Sisyphus to provide candidates for them; we condemn the lack of daily papers in the library, and let the reading room perish for want of fifty subscriptions...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Last year it was suggested through your columns that two hare and hounds runs take place each week instead of one. The suggestion was carried out by the managers of the H. A. A. with considerable success. I want to urge that the management arrange for two runs a week this year also, while the season lasts. The reasons to be urged in favor of this plans are, that things often occur Wednesday that prevent those who wish, from going on the runs; these interruptions are of course only occasional. there are, however, many fellows who have...
...proposed race. I think it would be a good thing for Yale, and it would be a contest in which the whole country would be interested. There are some difficulties in the way of such a race, but these I think, can be overcome. Of course we would not want to go across the water unless we defeated Harvard at New London in July, and any contest between our crew and an English university eight would hinge on the result of our annual battle with Harvard. Mr. Cook thinks that both Yale and Harvard could have defeated Cambridge this summer...
...young men in the land systematically practice athletics? Probably less than one per cent. How large a proportion of those who are members of athletic clubs take an active part in the sports patronized by their respective clubs? Probably less than ten per cent. The cause of this want of interest in athletics is, doubtless, an increasing tendency to pursue sport as an end in itself rather than as a means...