Word: boats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Centennial boating diploma adorns the boat-house...
...class-races took place on the Harlem, on Saturday, 3d November. The races were started from Macomb's Dam Bridge, and rowed to the boat-house...
...received an official answer. A challenge has also been sent to Columbia. Twenty-three men are now training. They are at present using the Gymnasium, but the University have offered them the use of their rowing-machines as soon as they are set up at the boat-house...
...boating challenge to Harvard is still unanswered. From the Crimson's account of the meeting of the Harvard Boat-Club we gather that the feeling at Harvard is that last summer "the first race was good discipline for the second," and that "the Yale race should be kept independent of all others." Some may be inclined to resent these expressions as showing a spirit of loftiness and condescension on Harvard's part. We trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other...
...last issue of the Courant contains two full-page illustrations of the boat-races at Yale. Perspective is unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than...