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YALE ROWING.
The management of the Yale Crew, for
the past two years, has been faced with
perhaps the hardest problem that has
appeared in all Yale athletics. A com-
bination of circumstances had left the
Yale rowing interests in a most unsatis-
factory condition. The work had to be
begun anew.
vard had been climbing and Yale, start-
ing from the bottom, could not catch
her ithe first year. Whether she ‘tan
catch her this year is a matter of as
much doubt as all boating problems are.
Almost everybody says that it is im-
possible. All agree that Harvard’s crew
to-day is rowing very fast. The talk
at New London and New Haven, and
as far as we know, at Cambridge, is
ali of the Crimson. The only feeling
which we have in the matter is that the
Yale Eight are good men, ‘that they
have had good coaching, and that there
is a great deal of power in the boat.
Whatever may be the isstte, we expect
to see worthy Yale rowing at New Lon-
don on the 28th, and shall be very much
disappointed if this hope is not realized.
This condition of things is, in itself,
a great tribute to the work Dr. Gallau-
det and Captain Allen have done in the
last two years. Dr. Galaudet’s work
has been recognized from the first as a
valuable and a most unselfish contribu-
tion to Yale interests. It is now seen
—t» be a very strong link in the new chain
In the meanwhile, Har- ©
-Yale
‘ graduate, is for the swift cure of this
They desire “earnestly that the .
of unity and system which is drawing
together and making stronger the athlet-
ics of Yale. We beg to congratulate
Dr. Gallaudet, and also Captain Allen,
who has worked so faithfully and so
ably with him, on the condition which
has already been reached.
There is much yet to be done. A
new boat house and many times the
number of boats and oars, and other
equiment, are some of the things which
Yale ought to have right away. We
believe the undergraduates themselves
can help towards this another year to a
wonderful extent, while the graduates
are building and equipping Yale for her
Bi-centennial. In fact, we should be
delightful to see some such work made
the special labor of Nineteen Hundred
and One.
But however it is done, if the future
course in the development of Yale row-
ing is as well taken as that followed
by Dr. Gallaudet and Captain Allen in
the last two years, all will be well.
In the meanwhile, we look confidently
for good Yale work on the Thames next
week.
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SOPHOMORE SOCIETIES.
To allow four more months to con-
sider plans for straightening out the Yale
Society system, is to give all the time
the most exacting and deliberate could
demand for working out the problem.
Whether this time will be profitably
used depends upon the way in which
the present members of the societies
look at it. If they let themselves think
that the matter is put off definitely or
indefinitely, and that when they get
back to New Haven they will begin to
think it over again and appoint a new
committee of conference between the
societies and work at it from week to
week, they will surely let the situation
again become acute and subject Yale to
another series of internal struggles.
To let the thing pass at all into the
future is very dangerous. It is time to
state this fact as strongly as possible.
The vacation season is given for vaca-
tion; but it is also given for recon-
sideration and forethought. If the men
in control of the Sophomore societies
to-day do not come back to New Haven
next Fall practically agreed upon a plan
and ready to execute it, they may expect
more trouble in Yale, and they will be
responsible for it. We have tried from
the first to impress the idea that, when
there is trouble in the community, in
the last analysis the responsibility rests
with those who have been given the
positions of responsibility and power.
As to the Faculty, they consider that
they owe it to the undergraduates to
give them this amount of time to work
the thing out. They do not propose to
antagonize the Society members, and
they have certainly gone to the limit of
fairness in this respect. If the men
who have this matter in their hands—
that is, the members of the societies—
are not ready to meet it next Fall, they
will finally prove that they are entirely
unfit to discharge the greatest work that
has come upon Yale men in many col-
lege generations. We beg to assure the
Faculty that if this condition is realized,
they need not be afraid of antagoniz-
ing the best undergraduate sentiment by
proceeding to‘act. The majority of
sentiment, undergraduate and
evil.
undergraduate members of the societies
shall act, but they desire most of all
that action shall be taken. It will not
be possible, should this radical step be
necessary, for men to continue secretly
Organizations against which the present
agitation has been waged, without plac-
ing themselves squarely against the best
interests of Yale. We would be sur-
prised if such a stand were not at once
overwhelmed by a tide of adverse senti-
ment.
We believe it is time to speak thus
frankly. We still cherish strongly the
hope that those who ought to do this
work will do it, and that Yale will be
united again when another year opens.
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NEW EDITORS OF THE ‘*NEWS.’’
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New Board. They have won their place
after a competition quite remarkable for
the high standard of work of all the
competitors. We trust that those who
did not win their places this time may
seek and improve a later opportunity,
for there was certainly excellent ma-
terial among those who did not secure
places this time.
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“NOT FOR MONEY.”
Professor Agassiz, the world-re-
nowned naturalist, was asked on one
occasion to deliver a certain course of
lectures, and he declined, saying that
his other engagements forbade it. The
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