The conflict of the dates set for the University boat race and for Class Day will, unless the circumstances of the choice are appreciated, probably cause much dissatisfaction. At the conference held last Saturday in New York to decide on the dates for the intercollegiate races, the Harvard-Yale-Cornell race was set for not earlier than June 23 nor later than the twenty-fifth because the Cornell-U. of P. Columbia race could not take place later than July 2 and it was thought that the Cornell crew would need at least a week between races. The final choice of date was left to Harvard. The twenty-fifth is satisfactory to Cornell so the University crew yesterday decided on that date in order to gain the longest possible time at Poughkeepsie. As most attention is paid to the speed of a crew at the end of its period of training, and as the conditions at Poughkeepsie are very favorable for time rows, the weeks spent there in immediate preparation for the race are the most important of all. Accordingly, as it is wished to have all the crews in the best possible condition for the race, the last of the possible three days has been chosen.
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