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THE Yale Courant contains an editorial upon the difficulty among the Freshman crews, in which it again asserts the Yale view of the matter. The Amherst crew have been a little sarcastic at the expense of the New Haven oarsmen. They say in a communication: "We have endeavored to look at the matter 'in a reasonable light,' and while we should be extremely sorry to see the Freshman race a failure, as Harvard has a crew chosen in accordance with the rules of the Association, we do not deem the presence of the Yale crew an indispensable necessity to insure its success." The Courant naturally does not like this; and it states as a "fact" what is not a fact, that is, that "it was long after the crew was selected, and just after some Harvard men had seen them row, that objection was made." From the Freshman Captain we have received different information. No sooner had he learned what Yale proposed to do, than he protested against their course, and it was not till afterwards that the rowing of their crew was seen. Perhaps, had he seen them first, he might have been willing to waive the point. The Courant advises its men to go to Springfield prepared to row, and if they are ruled out, though it does not see how they can be, to "grin and bear it." "If, however, their principle of selection is declared right, and Amherst and Harvard still refuse to row, as no other college has entered a crew, the Yale Freshman will stand a pretty good chance of coming in ahead." Yes, neighbor Courant, and the boating world would never hear the last of the glorious victory achieved, against the most frightful odds, by the stout Yale Freshman at Springfield in '73.
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