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...Hudson, and during the past few days its regatta committee have been examining suitable courses. The choice lies between a course at Newburg and one at Poughkeepsie. At Newburg a four-mile course can be obtained, sheltered from all except the east winds, so that smooth water is practically assured. The current runs at the rate of but three miles an hour and as the stream at that point is over a mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel. At Poughkeepsie the stream does not afford...
...mass meeting of the students of Columbia College was called on Thursday by the directors of the athletic association to find out the feeling of the undergraduates in regard to advisability of putting a crew on the water this spring. The chairman of the standing committee on Rowing, read the following resolutions which were carried with very little opposition...
...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...
...that the Board of Directors has decided that there is not enough interest in boating at Columbia to warrant putting a 'varsity crew on the water, what interest in rowing does exist in the college centers in the freshman crew. Forty-seven candidates for the '95 boat have presented themselves and the following will be kept in training for the present...
...whole it seems probable that the athletics of the college will be more benefited by choosing the position at 116th Street than one in the country where the number of men would be smaller, the chance for growth less, and no prospect of better or more accessible water or a better field than at present...