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Owing to the difficulties met with in preparing a crew, Princeton may not be represented on the water this year. The feeling is that a crew ought not to be trained for next season, but no definite decision on the matter will be reached until after the holiday recess...
...Harvard boat club, according to a Boston paper, propose putting a second eight upon the water, which shall contest with the University of Pennsylvania for the proud title of champions of the world. Although the prejudices acquired in nearly four years at Yale have rather incapacitated us for looking with unalloyed delight on the aquatic victories of Harvard, yet in the present instance we confess that we would be more than pleased to see her second eight victorious over the crew which so confidently appealed to the public opinion to award it the championship because no college found it convenient...
...another inducement for the crews to work hard, as the men who will fill half of the seats in the new crew were last year reckoned among the best oarsmen in college. It will be practically an '83 crew, and that class always held an enviable position on the water from the time when, as freshmen, they walked away from the other boats in their very first race.'84 will have to look out if they intend to win a race while they are in college, or else they may see the coveted laurels carried off by a crew many...
...half, is generally admitted to be of so completely different a character as to make it perfectly possible to have a representative four and eight at the same time. Yale evidently appreciates this fact, as she intends, according to all reports, to put a four on the water next spring...
...inferiority in boating is largely caused by the close policy carried out by the managers of the Yale navy. It has been their policy during the last few years to keep everything about the 'varsity crew secret, and to allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows, and the record of these is below par. Bent on an opposite policy...