"THE very delightful college boat-races on the Charles River Saturday would have afforded still greater pleasure to the handsome array of the students' lady friends had some of the oarsmen been a little more attentive to their rowing costume. Rowing with bare backs, to say nothing of still more extensive nudity, is discountenanced by all leading boat-clubs of the country, as well as by Oxford and Cambridge, and there seems to be no reason why Harvard should be backward in this respect."
Our attention has been called to the preceding extract from a Boston paper of Monday last. Several private complaints of a similar sort have reached us. These complaints are not without foundation. When boating-men invite their fair friends to witness their exploits, they should remember that the social condition of the nineteenth century materially differs from that of antique Arcadia.
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