Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-31

New Haven, Conn. Oct. BOA new crew coaching system for Yale is de- manded. The English stroke, at least as it is taught by youthful amateur coaches, has failed. Fifteen communi- cations from Yale men in regard to the crew situation flooded the editorial columns of the News this morning and swept an avalanche of criticism over the crew methods that have been pFacticed at Yale for the past three ent rowing system is shown, and the News says, Prompt and vigorous eff fort from the authorities should pre- vent us from having to wait another year for a coach. Every possibility must be exhausted before the hope of a reasonable and efficient coaching system. which alone can restore con- hdence, for this year is abandoned. And the graduate rowing committee must forsake sentimenality and senti- mental prejudices for what has failed and fight. if need be, to find somebody who can save Yales crews from the 1ests and insults of the force"
 length of open water behind an inexperienced crew at Princeton Satur- day, an eight which had had even less training than Yale. dashed the hopes of Yale men, and brings the break with
 
 professional coach is demanded.
 If our purpose is simply to develop an amateur crew with no particular idea of winning" writes one man, the present policy can probably accomplish this end. If on the other hand our purpose is to develop a crew able to compete with Harvard and Princeton certainly inexperienced amateur coaching will never get us anywhere Our baseball and football teams have shown marked Improvement since they have been in the hands of competent be impossible to hire a competent coach for crew and have a race at New London next year instead of a parade
 Why not change the policy and get a professional resident coach, an American, who knows the way Aneri- cans TOW. Harvard has one. Cornell has one, why can't Yale have one?" asks another man. Nine out of every ten undergraduates would be tickled to death to see the English stroke at the bottom of the harbor
 Little censure is directed against Coach Hartman, and the oarsmen rowed to their limit in the fight against Princeton. Dr. Spaeth said it was aI- ways pleasure to have such man ly lot of fellows come there. The criticism is against the system, which will have hard work to survive.
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 The Freshman who comes down to New Haven from a small preparatory school and lacks the extensive ae- quaintance with a large proportion of his class and some foreknowledge of college customs that the big prep school man enjoys, has often a rather rocky time of it. if he is shut out of the fun of dornaitory life. That is a weak point in the system of the Shef- field Scientific school, and the Alumni Weekly points out the crying need in Shelf for a completion of the rooming system in that department of the uni- versity.
 In the college, there has never been any deficiency of this sort. The Fresh man has been taken right into dorm itory life. and thereby into the heart of college activities from the start of his four years, and there have been times, about the beginning of the first term of his first year, for example when he has wished that he was camping a couple miles out on East