New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-09
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.
TIE PRINCETON CREW.


.,, my LAST TO BE FIRST i-PRINCEIoN's
URrAT MEN.
fppou A SPECIAL COMMANDMENT oP rHE TRIBuNE1
PRINCETON. June S.-Nothing makes the country
moro charming than plentiful shower AFTER "a sum
NOR drou,h Our train had hardly drawn out of the
,overtv stricken aduncts of jersey City yesterday
hofore the Good-ga were iooscd and 1t raincu
harder and harder, till WE cot well into the inferior
Of the State Nobody ever accuses jersey oi beine
particularly beautiful country, hit every green
thing now is in full blow and it pleasant even
10 sec ia mean red soil which had looked so rarched
and hot like some iiannel-mouthed old topper SHAKING
ts tbirs, with tremendous draughs of cheering RAIN
And when fhe old Quaker lady on the next scat
asked Does thee see how these trees aetnaliy iIt
ND their heads to catch the rain :" rather thought
did and AL was well.
Princeton, too when reached looked very i"oe "a
its dew drops for Princeton Is apietty place al
WAYS and il was quite amusing too' 10 sec '"o ''"
dents scampering through tho showers 10 reo''"
f;ous nj the sound of the college Dell, put "''
.rreored that the rain was going TO continue TIL
night in defiance of the weather report 80 'n"' 'nr
crow could not 90 out admiration OF ITS naturai
beauties was modified, and We wsheu 'no oio"''
had hung on little longer.
All hands wore equally disguised, and Cap'. d. L.
N;oo u,ost of ALL for his crew has taken It's daily
rractice-pu since the first of last April only on'
ting two days and yesterday made the thiiu. ino
roin held up = little about 5:3o, ana a start was
made for the boat house, but before the party was
fairly ont of tho village the big drops began 10 pat
for down and NcOll called a halt. so the row was
POSTPONED till this morning, not on account oil INC
isconforts of the rain, hut for lear some Vi 'c po
cious SIX might catch cold
The first OF these letters having dealt with the
Columbia crew, which camo iii first in last year 5
race IL is meet that the second should treat OF the
college which occupied the most conspicuous posi-
t;op M the other extreme. This honor was carried
off Inv Princeton with great fcld in spite of strong
efforts ON tho part of Trinity. But for Nlcoiis
plucky victory in the Freshman race the orange ana
black of the house of Nassau would have droopcd
low indeed but that brought Princeton mp TO re-
spectacle position at least, and gave Nicol such
prestige that find him captain OF tho University
Crow This year.
RESOURCES or PRINCETON.
Princeton is emphaically first-class college, ana
lint for peculiar circumstances would never have
beeu found in the position she took last year. Her
Numbers are respectable, Observation-Disclosures footing
nm 3S) and the infant school OF Science, now only
two years old Inustcrs already % students The men
at Princeton, too are not inferior to their college,
and il is claimed that their performance in active
life will average better than that of graduates OF
any other college. The Hon. +. ID. Mansfield OF
Ohio Published some curious statistics not long
ago, comparing the worldly success OF laie ana
Princeton graduates Yale WAS founded In l'OO
md Princeton not till l6 years afterward, and the
graduates of ono outnumher by more than thru
those of the other. Notwithstanding this. 1t APP
ncars nv this table as if Princeton has had rs many
men who have been distinguished i'll public affairs
as Yale. oa,
Gated President of the United States. James Madi-
non having passed through n course OF study there
over loo years ago. Yale has no President on
her rolls. Yale has one Vice-President, ana
Princeton two. Yale. members of the Cabinet !;
Princeton Is. Yale is ahead Oh judges, having li3
against 1877 and on College Presidents, OF whom
slc has 80 10 Princeton's 40; United States Sen
Stors Princeton leads with 80, Yale showing IS; and
I'm Congressman and Foreign ambassadors the num-
bcrs arc about equal.
The institution just now IL IN splendid CONDITION.
Or. McCosh has been there seven years, anu the
fouch of master hand can be seen in every detail
About 81 100000 have been given 10 the college
during hi4 Presidency, and five splendid buildings
erected one of which. the Library, will probably be
acknow lodged as tho finest specimen OF college
arcli,ectnro on the continent.
One would hardly expect to find the crew of such
an institution this bringing up the rear in field
of ten at the great college regatta but everything
o,rst have beginning and boating. up to last year,
WINS a lost art at Princeton. Another great dill
6outy was an absurd prejudice of class OF students
in the college, which led to the authority over the
crew being vested in the hands of an incompetent
COMMITTEES instead Of being placed with the captain
as il should have been The result was what might
have hcsn expected. That crew, IN short, was not
fair representative Of Princeton College. The crew
of this year is Very little has been said thus far
about Princeton. But those who expect to see her
crew either feeble in men, insulicien'y trained, or
incompatontly commanded, will find themselves very
much, surprised
A"cIAcK" CREW.
II ia not 100 much to say that Princeton will have
one of the crack crews and some of tie wise men
begin TO say that Dartmouth will have another
Princeton is the most thorougbgong college IN
athletic sports. She has superintendent of gym
nasiics George Gode, the best iran for the purpose
In tho c,lntry and through the Winter term every
stndcnt il required TO attend and exercise at the
magnificent gymnasium. Their annual exhibitions
there are great events, and much emulation exists
10 excel in them. Princeton probably has finer gym
nasts and more of then, than any other college; and
some Of tile best gymnasts in Princeton are in this
crew. II msy fairly be distinguished as crew Of
athletes.
All Winter long they have been practicinQ in the
gymnasium on liberal bat carefully selected diet
and without tobacc" stmulants of any Kind grad
ually and slowly reducing themselves to racing con-
dition II have often noticed" one of the officers of
the club says. that when mon are learning to row
and taking their practice pulls and training down at
tre sa,ne time it is too much for them, and on that
principle have thought best to get these men into
perfect training before they entered the boat so that
they corld give their entire attention to the science
Of rowing and not BIZ over-fatgued by their work.
The consequence is tcre is no firing them and they
pulled to Trenton, ten miles, without any trouble,
the first day they were OUT
on TIE RAGING CANAL.