Word: boats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Englishmen are more than pleased to see these international contests. I have heard my cousin, who is now a Fellow, and was a Junior at Baliol ten years ago, say that your crew of '69 lacked only good form to equal the best of ours, and as your present boat seems to have acquired this, - to judge from what you say, - I think the chances must have been very even had we been able to arrange a race...
...manager of such an affair always has to contend against. Provision must be made for all manner of untoward circumstances. which may possibly arise, and every imaginable source of trouble which can be foreseen must be removed in advance. The veriest trifle may destroy the success of a boat-race, - bring vexation to the crews and discomfort to thousands of spectators, - and it is therefore the part of wisdom to provide against every conceivable contingency, no matter how remote or improbable...
...scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds of these Harvard and Yale men who would be glad each year to finish up their Commencement celebration by witnessing a race between the representative...
PRESIDENT HARVARD UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB...
...Much surprise was occasioned in the last week of last term by the withdrawal of the challenge to Harvard for a university boat-race next summer. Many remarks upon the action of our Navy Directors were made, some favorable, more expressing disapproval, but by this time the general sentiment of the students is with the Directors and indorses their action...