Year: 1873

1t is strange that there must be job in almost
everything the United States Treasury Depart
ment has TO do. Why, in the name of common
sense, could not the British government pay
fifteen millions to the United States without
the Syndicate's aid or the Syndicate touching
the money!


The University Boating Regatta ON


tho Connecticut-The Challenge Cup


Race.


The agony Of suspense among oarsmen is
over, and the grand University Regatta of 1873
has passed into boating history. The banks
Of the Connecticut River yesterday presented
scene which will long remain in the men,
ories of those who witnessed it, and testified
unmistakably to the interest taken by the pub
lie in the physical development of our youth,
as well as the attention paid to the COM
mencement exercises at the various educational
institutions showed what the people thought
of their mental improvement Emancipated
for the nonce from the arcana of classical au-
thors, relieved from disquisitions on ethics
and philosophy of all kinds, and free from
theses and the arena of learned disputa-
tions, the students OF eleven institu-
tions, numbering fourteen distinct crews,
emulated yesterday the example of the youths
ofyore. when the laurel crown in the Olympian
Games was as eagerly sought after as the CON-
mendations of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle or
Pythagoras. Elsewhere in the HERALD Of to-
day will be found the details of the manly
exercises which took place yesterday, near the
town of Springfield, on the banks of the
river where once Sassacus and his Pequots
fought against the pale face invaders. The
Freshman's race, in which three universities
were represented and the great inter-uni-
versity race, in which no less than eleven
institutions took part, have both resulted in
the triumph of Yale College over all compet-
itors. How the very elms around the alma
mater at New Haven will rustic with delight
at this double victory won by the gallant
youths who so oft sat beneath their shade, and
what rejocings there will be, even among
the gray-haired graduates of that time
honored institution, who have been COM
batants in the battle Of life for many year!


The course over which the great race was
rowed seems to have been anything but satisfac-
tory. Rivers, all the world over, are capricious
and unaccommodating to boating contests.
In o country like ours, which prides itself in
the number, variety and beauty of its lakes,
there is no reason why the tangled problem of
shifting currents sandbars and other obsta-
cles should interfere with our oarsmen. There
is many lake, like the one on which Harvard
beat Yale twenty years ago, where those
aquatic contests could be conducted to the
satisfaction of every one. Then there would
be no disappointment or grumbling about the
choice of positions, and muscle, pluck and
training would alone decide the victory. One
of those beautiful lakes, embosomed amid
virgin woods, where thousands of spectators
can look down from the amphitheatre-ike
shores, and where O clear course is attainable,
is surely preferable to a narrow, sinuous,
treacherous river, on which muscle and speed
cannot always hope for success. This is
subject worthy of the attention of the young
athletes who combine each year the powers of
the cultured mind with the mastery of those
physical exercises that tend so much to bring
around that desirable result, mems Sand in
corpore sano


But not alone on the water did the athletes
distinguish themselves yesterday. There was
spice of the Olympian spirit in the two mile
running race in which three feet-footed COM
petitors started. Such o contest could not
fail to enlist the attention of the vast assem-
blage congregated together at Springfield
during regatta week. A Canadian student,
Mr. Bowie, was the victor in this race, after
an exciting struggle with Mr.. Phillips a Cor
nell graduate. The interest displayed in this
race was not inferior to that shown in the
aquatic tournament, and testified to the i'm
portance attached to the physical develop
ment of our youth in oil kinds of manly con-
tests.