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...that being verbal and off-hand, and no record of it being made, certain points in it, perhaps, were forgotten or overlooked by both parties, and hence the misunderstanding. I think, too, that the Harvard crew should be credited with having acted in good faith throughout the whole proceeding, for when they left New London (as is mentioned in the official statement) they firmly believed that the race had been given up. The crew has been pretty severely handled in the Columbia papers, and, in my opinion, such mud slinging is not characteristic of gentlemen...
...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...
...upon such conduct. To make their small treatment of their victors all the smaller, their snub all the more snubbish, they ended up their meeting by tabling a motion not to row Columbia again. Columbia cannot let such noble condescension pass without due gratitude. If the outgrowth of the whole should be the end of the Harvard-Columbia race at a date which interferes with the Yale race as much as Harvard can make it, it may not be so wholly regretted after all. Columbia, however, has always had a good record in her dealings with other colleges, her honor...
...whole performance raises an interesting question, viz: Are not each of the players, thus receiving compensation, rendered thereby professionals, and thus ineligible for places on any college nine which competes for the intercollegiate championship...
...rules and regulations have been posted up in the gymnasium. The whole number of lockers in the gymnasium...