Outing . 453 His remarks to thestudents on boat-ing still further in-creased the inter-est in the club was re-organized, a boatpurchased and let-ters addressed toHarvard and Yalewith the object ofsecurmg races the ?ensuing spring. Afavorable answerwas received fromHarvard, butnothing furthercame of the nego-tiations. Duringthe spring lectureswere given b yPresident White,Prof. G o 1 d w i nSmith and othersin towns nearIthaca, wherebymoney sufficient tobuild a new boat- ;house and buy two -additional boats ^was procured. \Not one man in the \whole club could ffeather an oar, andthe fi

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Outing . 453 His remarks to thestudents on boat-ing still further in-creased the inter-est in the club was re-organized, a boatpurchased and let-ters addressed toHarvard and Yalewith the object ofsecurmg races the ?ensuing spring. Afavorable answerwas received fromHarvard, butnothing furthercame of the nego-tiations. Duringthe spring lectureswere given b yPresident White,Prof. G o 1 d w i nSmith and othersin towns nearIthaca, wherebymoney sufficient tobuild a new boat- ;house and buy two -additional boats ^was procured. \Not one man in the \whole club could ffeather an oar, andthe first boat pro-cured was mostignominiouslysunk by a canaltow-boat. In 72 Cornellwas admitted tothe Rowing Asso-ciation of Ameri-can the spring of73 came a waveof enthusiasm in ?boating enough tosend a crew toSpringfield wasraised, a boat builtby Blaikie was pre-sented by Presi-dent White, and atrainer was en-gaged. It is doubt-ful if under anycircumstances thecrew would have. rs^i?* W

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