Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ireland, and on the continent, and also will compete in all championship meetings held in those countries. The expenses of the team will be paid by the N. A. A. A. A. The team will sail from New York the first of June, to return about the middle of August...
...immense crowd gathered on the 27th of August to witness the great event. The two boats came out about five o'clock in the afternoon, and at the word from the starter the crews were off, Harvard rowing 46 to Oxford's 40. Harvard at once took the lead and held it for two miles, but it was then evident that Oxford's reserve power was much greater, as she soon lessened the distance between the boats, and took a good lead which she kept to the finish, crossing the line six seconds ahead of the Harvard crew. Although defeated...
...record of the number of volumes drawn from the Yale Library from September 1, 1887, to August 31, 1888, as compiled from the librarian's book, is as follows...
Sixteen years later, in February, 1827, Cornelius Conway Felton, '27, together with two other seniors, started the Harvard Register. This paper was published monthly, and in August of the same year three members of the class of 1828 took charge of the paper and published it till its close in February, 1828. The cause of this sudden close of the Register lay in the literary indifference which prevailed at the time...
...race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...