New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02
CORNELL.
THE QUESTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ROWING

THE QUESTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ROWING
RACE.
Ithaca. Dec (SpecaD-The strong feeling
AGAINST football which has manifested itself In
many college faculties since the Harvard Yale
game is not shared by Cornell professors In their
on,nion football is not inherently brutal game
Cornell has played several hard and desperate
games this fall but of her players have been
DISQUALIFIED for smuggling" or even charged win
any unnecessary roughness The cordial approval
which the game receives from Cornell professors
will be manifest Friday evening next when
great university dinner In honor OF the iootpah
team will be held in the armory. The banquet VIII
he attended not only by students and prominent
alumni but by many of the officers ana the pro-
fessors OF the University Preparations are man
ing for an attendance of six or seven hundred.
The trustees Of the university. upon the recon-
mendation of the faculty have doubled the num-
Der of scholarships annually thrown open 10 lhe
competition of members OF the entering class. Inc
university now offers to incoming freshmen eigh-
teen scholarships of the value OF S2Oo each year
for two years.
A valuable souvenir has been presented 10 'he
electrical museum of the university by S'ePheh
Vail of New-York son of Alfred Vail. VINO was
associated with Professor S. r. A. Morse in the in
vention and development; of the electric telegraph
1t is piece Of the wire over which was passed. the
first message recorded as sent by the mas
netic telegraph. 1t consisted OF three "hi'eS VI
wire stretched around the Tour slueS Va a '''S
room in the Speedwe Iron Works at Morristo"h'
n j. owned by Alfred Wallis father Ezra Nor-
nell the founder Of the university, was prominently
identified with the inventors In the development OF
the telegraph and it was by this means that ne rear
lied large part of the wealth when ne ai'ei
ward used in the foundation of the university: T.,
a press report recently declared tiat 'o riIs
tended challenge Cornell to row TINS year ms
uncxpected action, If the story is true. II 60
planned by fact that Yale cannot secure IL ,"re
with ford until she has demonstrated her cIdIn'
no CHI min 81
After the announcement OF CornelTs decision 70
send n crew to England next July 10 lake , par
I'm the Henley regatta the Yale rowing authoriucs;;
in apparent ignorance of the fact that OXFORD hiu
American university until the aquatic supremacy
OF the country had been settled between me VII,
ners OF the Harvard and Corneli-fehhSHl'a
races opcned negotiations with oxford ior a rae
for the international! championship ~ Is Iepppi,teI
that Oxford's reply to her challenge has Furnished
the motive the reversal of lales FORMER Po"''
and her sudden determination 10 row Corneii;: .h
Dean White who is a faculty nenpti oI lHe
Athletic Council and was in England as sr, rosi
gave an interview the subject OF Oxioru : posi-
ton He said that he himself had no authoIlE "
represent the views of the Enghsh uihNerslssl.s,,
hui showed the reporter letter IRON the pfesucht
of the oxford University Boat tiuo III ieSiV Iii,
to n challenge from Cornell. The letter WAS wilt-
ten In 1898 and contains this passage vi pu'-
ting your challenge before our captains lnecti,n
here n was decided that should not row any
Could send" Dean White said that cornell could
not take any steps for race with 'aHlpIlusn vi
Oxford now that a crew was 10 be sew 70 re e,
lev Ar that regatta Cornell would meet the PSk
and flower Of English university GA sin' h,,aS
English race Is a short one Cornell VIII De opnsen
10 turn out two crews this year-a lght QUICK
oran Tor the Henley regatta. and heavier ere"
for the four.mile race with Pennsylvania