The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-15
C0RnELL MEN MAD
INDIGNANT OVER THE REFUSAL OF
YALE TO ACCEPT THEIR
TERMS.
INTERCOLLEGIATE POLICY.
AMONG CONSERVATIVES THIS IS
ACCEPTED AS THE MATTER
AT ISSUE.
INTERCOLLEGIATE
POLICY.
NO CHALLENGE FROM WISCONSIN
1t Is Not Likely There Will Be a
Race With the Western
Crew.

ITHACA, N. Y, Jan. 1.-THE refusal
tanned in the latter's acceptance of
Yale's challenge, has been the chief
topic Of conversation ut Ithaca today.
The students in general are Indifferent,
but some of them, while saying little,
have given signs of Indignation, which
practically represents the feeling at
Cornell on the boat race question as
far as a meeting with Yale is concern
ed.
In an interview tonight, Prof. E. w.
Huffcutt, president of the athletic coun-
Gil, which had full charge Of the nego-
tiations with Yale, gave the following
official statement to the Associated
Press representative:
Cornell regrets that Yale finds 1t
impossible to assent to terms which APP
pear to us to be in every way fair and
Eportsmanlike. The terms proposed are
an exact equivalent of the terms of
the challenge. Moreover, they are pre-
cisely the terms which Yale proposed
to Harvard last year, and to which
Harvard assented. 1t seems, therefore,
that Yale's Discrimination to accept
them must be due to reasons quite dis
tinct from any objections to their fair
ness and having to do with her gen.
eral intercollegiate policy. If this is
so, the case resolves itself into a DIFF
ference between Cornell and Yale as to
intercollegiate relations in general.
Upon such a question gentlemen may
disagree without engendering any I'M
friendly feeling, so long as the contro-
Versy is conducted in language of cour-
tesy and mutual consideration. In this
spirit Cornell accepts the decision Of
Yale and trusts that the good under
standing that began last year may
continue, even though different policies
at the two universities render future
intercollegiate contests betweeN the
two impossible"
Capt Frederick D. Colson, OF the
varsity crew, made the following state
ment: Cornell considers that her an
sWer to Yale's proposition for a boat
race was perfectly fair from every
point of view. l can only express my
surprise at the refusal of Yale to ac-
cord to Cornell next year what she
claimed of Cornell this year Cornell
Oarsmen regret that Yale has made
1T impossible for another test to be
made between the two different styles
of rowing inseparably connected with
the names of Courtney and Cook. A0
SOIHelI has dCCepIeu IIdi " d. u . Chdi-
lenge for a boat race at such time and
place as may be agreeable to the two
crews. it only remains to decide upon
such time and place. All through the
negotiations with Harvard and Yale, it
has been taken for granted that Cornell
would row Pennsylvania and Columbia
this year. Only matters of detail have
to be determined upon. Personally,
would like to see a quadrangular race
arranged for Columbia, Harvard, Penn
sylvania and Cornell"
Prof. Huffcutt denied the report that
a challenge had been received from
Wisconsin by Cornell. He stated that
it is not impossible nor improbable that
the Western crew should be represent
ed in the general regatta, if one should
be called.