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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...during the last four years of its history. The races are to be rowed either at Newark or Saratoga, during the first week of July, and on the day preceding the regular annual regatta of the association, which regatta the college crews are also invited to enter, in case they wish to test their prowess against that of non-collegiate amateurs. It is probable, also, that a fourth prize will be offered, in the college regatta, for six-oared boats rowed by class crews, for it is believed that such a race would have many advantages over one confined exclusively...
...reasonable doubt that Cornell would at once begin training an eight to meet them, and perhaps Columbia would do likewise; but the entrance of any fourth college is extremely improbable. In Harvard's absence I fear that Columbia and Cornell would not be disposed to compete; and in that case the only apparent chance of keeping the eight-oared prize on the programme would be in persuading the Freshmen of Harvard and Columbia to enter for it, in case they really agree to row their proposed race in eight-oared boats. Whatever the result of the Harvard-Yale race...
...with great regret that I saw in this morning's paper a statement that the Harvard Freshmen voted last night to invite their Cornell contemporaries to row a race with them "at New London," and I sincerely hope that some other locality may be finally chosen, in case the two classes really compete. Their presence on the Thames would tend to interfere with the perfection of the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race, and is therefore earnestly to be deprecated by all who wish to see that race firmly established there as a regular annual "institution." Few people are aware...
...attendance will be doubled. But New London offers no facilities for lodging such a multitude over night, or even for supplying it with food for the space of a day; and great dissatisfaction and discomfort would therefore result from delays or postponements. Of course these latter may in any case be brought about by the weather or other uncontrollable cause; but the chance of their occurrence would certainly be increased by any attempt to row subsidiary races on the same day, or even on the previous day. Likewise, the experiment of the "moving grand stand," which pleased so many people...
...which would not interest your readers, and so I must content myself with the simple assertion that quite a number of little improvements which the New-Londoners had planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably produced dissatisfaction on the part of the crews and the spectators...