New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-07
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.
THE CHAMPION CREW.

CREW OF COLUMBIA-EACELLENI ro"'A $500
CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUsINEss-wHAT THE COL
LEGE DOES FOR THKM-THE NEW BoA1-housh'
Summer days have come back. and again the stu
dents far and wide preparing for their great an
nual regatta Fourteen colleges enter, and VIII row
on the same course and in the same way in 1870 as
in 1874.
Many believe that the time is near when the race
will be rowed with coxswains and probably III iour
cared boats 1t was the closest escape from
this year. vote actually passed the Convention
ruling that all boats should carry coxswains In the
coming race, but it was recOnsidered and changeo
by shrewd opponent to read so that crews r'sh"g
TO carry coxswans could do 20. BY this benevolent
provision any institution desiring to carry an extra
passenger in the race may do 30 without eftra
charge but il is perhaps safe to say notwithstand
ing that the race will be rowed in sixoared smells
without cOxswans as it was last year.
Each boat will have 100 feet width OF sea-room as
before, but they will have novel and extraordinary
assistance in steering this year in the shape OF 10
rows of flags of the Union, extending from start to
finish, and serving % sort of fencing to keep the
boats 100 feet apart The lines were surveyed IN
the Winter on the ice, and between 300 ana 4VV
buoys are now anchored in the lake ready for the
reception of az many standard sheets. In the Cen
tepnial year. it will be noble sight indeed 10 see
between 800 and 400 Star-Spangled Banners, such
as the true American grocer sells at two cents apiece
speckling tho surface of the beauteous lake. leu
the grouty old bOatman pOOh-pOohs this pia1i' anu
thinks the flags may not BIO there when the race
comes oil. He holds that the 0arsmen Will scoop
them all down with their oars, thereby setting az
naught this patriotic inventions but IL Is 10 oe
hoped that it may succeed better than the OH
growler anticipates. rule has also been made that
each boat shall keep in its water, and shall not
give another its wash at any time. From when
enactment an abundant crop of disputes may be ex-
pected to spring Immediately after the race.
COLUMBIA ON THE HARLEM.
1t would be more satisfactory to meet the Column
bia crew at the Lake. AS Mr.. Rees says: An IN
interrupted week there will do more for them than
month here broken in upon by studies and nome
duties and it is rather early to cricise their work
before they reach their racing quarters. Moreover
the breeze which blows through the buds OF MI
nerams trees over the boathouse at Saratoga is in
better keeping with the fresh and pleasant assocla
tions of the College Regatta than the ancient and
fish-ke smells from Hunters Point oil factories OF
the odors which smell to Heaven from Harlem
Flats.
But il is time that it was made known what the
oarsmen are doing and the victOrs must have the
precedence which is Justly due Them so these letters
tce ON the waters of the Harlem River, which they
leave for Saratoga on June 10. AS boating insti-
tuition Columbia is Of the most formidable OF all
the fourteen. Few colleges appear in the regatta
which have not more than 1870 undergraduates; ana
that il about the quota of Columbia, so that In TINS
respect she apparently ranks with the smallest col
leges: but it is IN appearance only, Tor though inc
main trunk is small there grow from it some pow
erful branches and the three professional depart
ments attached to the college each of them larger
than the college itself The more latitude there is
given by the college conventions in selecting oars
men from professional schools the better it Will be
for Columbia. The scientific school numbers 2OO
her law and medical schools about 400 studentseach
Limit her to her academic department, and she
ranks with Wesleyan in the number from which her
oarsmen are to be selected. Throw open all the pro-
fessional schools. and she is close upon Yale and
Harvard. Under one rule she would have 100 can
didates for oarsmen; under the other, LOO. The
present rule admits the Scientific School, but rules
ont doctors and lawyers; so Columbia has between
800 and 400 men to select from, which places her
considerably above the lowest grade in number,
on level with Cornell, Princeton. and Dartmouth.
FIVE MILLIONS OF MONEY.
Tn point of wealth Columbia stands ahead of them
all. In earlier times the buildings stood on College
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nopuation that drove the old Colonial institution
ND town. raised the value of all her property IN Col
lepe-place, in Park-place, in Murray, Robinson,
BARCLAY. and Grecnwich-sts. ffty-fold. Much of it
ia now let ON ancient leases made ancient valua-
tons-leases for a hundred years, and such lengths
of time which yield rent Of only fraction OF the
present value; but they afford, NOTWITHSTANDING a
NET income of per cent on Valuation Oh
S1.944OOO. Forty years ago piece OF VIII lana
ON the east edge of the State, to which the College
had title. was in dispute between New-York ana
Connecticut and was finally awarded 10 thc
"wooden nutmeggers." Columbia urged her CLAIM
for CONDENSATION on New-YOrk State. Dr. Hosack
then had great Botanical Garden on Manhattan
Island, far out of town. whittier the wealthy mei-
chants used to drive on Summer afternoons WIFI
their families but Dr. Hosack could not make 1t pay
Notwithstanding, and the State got possession oi
il for q song and made it over to the College as an
equivalent for the lost bOrderlands. Discomfort was
loudly expressed at such q miserable gift, ana an
energetic attempt was made by the College author-
ties to get $1O 900 instead. But they had to take
the land or nothing, and so made virtue of neces-
sty-took it and let it lie. The city grew and grew
and rrew. and that land now figures in the schedule
of the College property as "264 lots between fiith
and Sixth-aves and Foty-seventh and Fifty-first-
sts all under lease, with buildings on them erected
by the lessees" This little property alone is valued
at $2.O41,773 40 Figure in the value of the pres
emf College property at Fourth-ave and FOrtyninth
st. at 5000 900, add $4,000 of mortgages on city
property, and few other little matters, and the
wealth of Columbia College, as officially estimated
will be $5,O14,702 "a.
Az the officers of the College heartily desired to en-
courage boating, it may be easily that they did
not lack the means and the result is the first perlna
nent endowment of boating which has been made IN
this country the boating interest receiving ANNUALLY
as it is at present arranged, $1,000 from the funds
of the College.
THE REGATTA A GREAT INSTITUTION.
n. Ill l,o aaf nished that q college fac