Word: alle
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SHE. Is that all? I shall have to leave the Hall; it's almost as bad as Mrs. Morgan's, when poor, dear great-grandpapa was in college. Was n't that a charming dress that the presidentess wore at her recitation in Etiquette 13, this afternoon?
Anyhow, I am bound by my thirteen years' personal experience of the actual and possible dangers, discomforts, and disasters connected with attempts at "mixing things" in intercollegiate boat-race management, to plead as eloquently as I can against the rowing of any such race on the Thames during the seven...
If a University eight or four from Harvard cannot be persuaded to compete for the challenge cups of the N. A. A. O., and if the Harvard Freshmen do not care to arrange a race with their Cornell rivals under its auspices, and if they do make a good showing...
Of the N. A. A. O. itself, it may fairly be said that its annual regattas of the last six seasons have increased steadily in importance, representing an equally steady growth in its own character and influence. It is controlled by an executive committee of nine, who at present represent...
"The regatta on the Passaic was the best ever held in America" (Times); "in fact, there never was a better managed regatta on these waters" (Herald); "though the crowd was great, - about forty thousand according to estimate, - not a disorderly person was seen, and the races started promptly on time...