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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THANKS are also due to the Committee which arranged the preliminaries and took charge of the meeting. The mode of balloting they selected seems to have given universal satisfaction, both on account of its accuracy and perfect fairness. We question, however, whether the room selected for the meeting, though the same in which previous class elections have been held, is the most convenient in size and shape for that purpose. It necessitates, when a class is as large as the present, much crowding, confusion, and delay at the polls. The earnestness of the Committee to secure an open election...
...American colleges, she is perfectly welcome so to do, and no one will care to dispute her title. Harvard has now beaten Yale for two consecutive years in an eight-oared race; therefore Yale is out of it entirely as far as the "championship" goes. Columbia she has also defeated in eight-oars. Cornell has beaten Harvard twice in six-oars, and our Freshman crew last year in an eight-oar. As far as the eight-oar "championship" goes, then, Harvard has a perfect right to that title (if she has the bad taste to choose to claim...
...race in 5 min. 33 sec, '82 second, '81 third. Eldridge, '79, and Brown, '78, won the pair-oared race, beating Ridabock, '79, and Fiske, '81, in 7 min. 30 sec. College beat School of Mines in the four-oared barge race in 6 min. 51 sec. There were also some tub races and a canoe race...
...interest, and the entries would be large. A "Sack Race" would have its attractions, while a thrilling novelty would be a favorite race at Amherst, - at once humane, athletic, and amusing, - i. e. a "Greased Pig Race." A "barrel of cider to the class winning the most races" would also be an incentive to individual prowess, and would doubtless prove a strong card...
...also proposed that we should try and make arrangements for a race with Columbia...