New-York tribune., 1873-06-30

feeling and fairness that become the rivalries
of generous, well-bred youth. The cases in
which bad blood has been generated by it are
too few to be made account of. The intense
partisanship that marks the occasion of the
meeting, and especially that rules the supreme
hour of the actual struggle has proved no bar
10 the sincerest courtesy and friendlhess both
before and after tho decision of tie event.
So far as the Regatta serves to bringtogether
a great multitude of young men OF similar
tastes, pursuits, and prospects, to look in one
another's faces and fuse their common sympa-
thies by personal contact, even If bit for
day, it fullills a useful office. 1t isa good
thing for the Colleges; it creates tetween
them a feeling of acquaintance; it tnds to
mitigate their jeaousies. But it il sad that
the occasion is ono OF disturbance
and riot. 1t must be granted that
il is noisy time-that it is bound TO B-tre-
mendously noisy. But noise has no morai
ouality that we ever heard Of Whetinr one
likes it or not is simply matter OF taae' ii
there is such gathering at all. 1t must needs
be full of sound and motion, and tha, 700,
protracted beyond the customary norta peu-
time. And, really, noise is the worst tht can
fairly be charged against ninety nine Wt Oh
every hundred of the students who atten the
Regatta. Those who misbehave are an eNeed-
inoly small minority for whose drunkenness
or deviltry the institution of boating Ougtt IN
no wise to be held responsible. Their BAD
conduct. which is of course conspicuous, Il as
annoying TO their fellows AZ 1t is 10 omer
people. Three years ago the Yale Navy, a,
meeting held in New-Haven, adopted reson-
tions embodying this statement anu a request
IN the civil authorities of the place Where 'he
next Regatta should be held to use all means
IN nrevent and repress the disorders that had
disoraced the previous meeting at Worcester
f. certainly calls for regret that the competi-
tion is the occasion for so much betting; but
at the same time it is absurd to say that be-
cause it is the occasion, it is also the cause ol
il. The evil, which cannot be TOO much ue-
nlored will not be cured by abollslling the
Regatta, but by laying the AK at the root OF
! the tree-by getting it established IN c0Iege
sentiment, as it ought TO be, that 1t Is moi
right or honorable for n young man 10 rlsb
money which his father has given hlm to de-
| fray the expense of bis education, and wncl
! probably DclOngs W hIo '"iN~'J ~
upon any chance whatsoever.
If now leaving the attitude OF defense
there were space to speak more at large o
the positive merits of those athletic sports
which among the collegians of this age, boat
ing is chief, there is much that we should .lk'
to say. But we must stop mere. The obiec
tions to which what we have said has beeI
shaped are venerable They E.!s Were i 81 gL2oa %
bility directed against the Olympic and lsth
mian games, in supposed regard for intellect
ual and moral interests. Yet history show
| that somehow the culture of the body, result
ing in splendid physical development and il
the exploits of the stadium, went hand in ham
and was woven into the same system with tha
other culture which gave to the world the art
and letters of Greece. And the law OF tina
relation is not yet annulled.