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Columbia (Bowdoin and Cornell In Yale)

Bowdoin, and Cornell. In 1874 Yale and Harvard became entangled in a foul. In 1875 Cornell won, with Yale sixth, notwithstanding her crew being captained and stroked by R. J. Cook. In the winter of this year Yale withdrew from the Association of Colleges and challenged Harvard to an eight-oared 4-mile race, which was promptly accepted, and thus grown shorter from year to year. Yale profited by her 1896 Henley experience just as Cornell had profited by hers in 1895, and there is now no fear of Harvard, Yale, or Cornell again falling into the old, short, rapid-fire stroke.

At the time when Yale had ceased experimenting and settled down to sound principles, Harvard began a series of experiments which continued until, on invitation, Mr. R. C. Lehmann came from England and established the system employed at Oxford and Cambridge. Between 1886 and 1897 Harvard won but a single race from Yale, and that was in 1891. But in recent years that is, since 1905-Harvard have, as a rule, been victorious. Of the other American rowing colleges Cornell is, of course, the most illustrious. The first trace of any interest in boating at Cornell was the formation of the Undine Boat Club in 1869, by half a dozen students. This was merely a social club with an aquatic name, and boating was really first instituted in the Fall of 1870, through the visit of Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., the famous author of Tom Browne's Schooldays, who, realising the boating opportunities at