New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-04
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To the I'D itOr of The TrI6Hne.
SIR: VIII you allow an old Harvard man a
few words IN reply to your regatta Correspondents
somewhat ill-humortd structures Oh the legend " Re
porters and Loalcrs Not Wanted Here in conspicuous
let ers carefully painted, and your own editorial com
meut tnereOni
Nobody on will allow, likes 10 be bothered by toVeFS
therefore nobody can blame anybody for warning them
of Nor anybody should say, care 10 b" 0oheroI
by eportcs hence nobody ought to blame anybody for
warning of OF these at least as are III the habit Of
bothrring Now assert, without Tear OF eonirnho
lion from YOU that cDcge crews hare on OCCASION beeh
pestcred speak ts even the rest Of us SOMETIMES
at by oaers alone, but by reporters too Is IT then
to be wondered at that those young gentlemen IRON
Harvard, who would not entitled 10 their
diplomas yet" pasmuchas their education must be
sadly incomplete" should have been anxious 10 wad Oh
eportoa Is well as all other 6aSy6odeS 80 they Stuck
up that sign, winch no doubt anofoed tne'h
better protection than whole platoon oil your
own model II. Ps possibly could have done.
Oh course It must make reporters hair grit and ms
teeth stand severay end to be told IN so many words
uat he is not wautel, especially nj this season OF the
year. with the Russns idng laziY, across the Dan
ube Packard All hing out West and Townsend muzAlrd
nv mia Medcine-i;in But you say yourself there be
"reporers and reporters and not all Of them perhaps,
are gcntlemeni" Your now, happen 10 know is n
gentleman and colSgebred at that, Who AS the reporter
nj creat new spapcr" should. instead OF flying into
rage on being sudddny confronted by that conscuously
well-pani,d sgn-boar have peacefully commhhed WIN
himself think perhaps somewhat after tins fashion:
.Rough by thunderl Can't blame the boys, howeveI-
been there myself 10 time Just like sporting the OAK
when on the semInnual grind-mHtatss mVtandi6HS OF
| cour.e A blankedly lew juNtaposlti0n, however
num- give un chia rough aud let IL 20 at that Bat
blow II ALL column and half to write ana no talk with
D,pcroft whereon 10 hang my tale Let's see: lOdIer
course not! ambitious young man, fresh from my
hooks and eager Tor Goodl not beng an obscure
LITTLE sheets pennyd-liner either. nor an uneducaed un
mannery nqusitIye boOr but TRIBUNE correspondent
why bless me, I'll send in my nd. Here, jake 3.
Am, do YOU suppose they'd have your man away
II v,ould SEEM then that with somewhat less fire and
s.rn ,tl" and trlfe move sweetness and light IN
IN I he ,ugh, d, have taken no more ,usc beng
called " truor,crr than thf rest o. us a. being cOlcc
vy greeted loafrrs '-chu never Thought OF com
| ul,iniug nor do f. tnou-h sIou.G have been
delighted to snoOzs away afternoon under the trees
win our boys u course Inen way al TINS severe
tnik about lack OF education and "maDnes Z DO YOU
really stii think t must nave Dr,h he sAIauoh 90
b dclGulrd" In conclusion; over 70 years ago Yale
ami Harvard II ~ plttd crew against crew. From ear
year this cohegte rivalry enlisted more ana mo le
sympathy and enthusiasm oi he community IA which II
| look place. to VIZ: old-fishiOned Aew-Engdnd But
since TIE war tnpougn lhe VI ,ne pIess' te
whole country wis after fashion annually drawn into
oar excitement-a perfect Godsend OF course FOR You
quilldrtycrs. A. Ia consequence, speahing broadly
were drawn INTO the New-n gland aud then into Amer
|
agan through newspaper entcrprlsel grew tn "Ath-
lctic" aud "Litctuy contests" When, In addition to
rows multiple audi exp nscs nsippoi table, We tound
oufsrlye. the hands of your sWaliOw-alled, short
hair rriormer community Out OF sympathy with us,
and our old Antagonists gone home To rOOst, We fol-
| oNed them aitcl one years tar warning why mus
blame us Tor goltg back to OldfashiOued contests
f,r looA you wedOn't II you'd t,4nk
'sInail contractor Affairs, mere clius pay, lnisinueh
as We don't care To amuse and excite either the public
large even you gentlemen OF tue press Du Tor our
gIandmOhrrs ahd sweetheaitr VINO wear the blue or
the crimson Oecase they take personal interest Ia all
their BOYS do and proud OF athetc achievements
and not because " Ia TIE tlns 10 do 10y way OF kinS
/ time al one Ot our fashionable waller ny places.
30 let Yale and Haryur. hold tnvr own contests at
home, their own and al their own convenience
that's al ask of Chronicle these events ID you
con sder IL worth your while, and have our hearty
Trunks the Intelligent, truthful and impartial man
nor In which you ito Ia but don't ~ us Tor not row.
ns with Columbia VI Cornell, and not making show OF