Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...
...under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools...
...Boat Club, went to Springfield and secured quarters for the crew. These will be in West Springfield, just above the start of last year. The crew will probably leave Cambridge about the last of June, and will be in Springfield for a week or two's practice on the Connecticut before the race, which will probably be rowed over the same course as last year, although there has been some talk of changing the course for one to finish farther up the river...
...made; and on Tuesday last, the President of the Boat Club went to that city to meet the President of the Yale Navy, and consult with the citizens, committee, and the railroad authorities. Matters were satisfactorily arranged; and accordingly, the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed on the Connecticut River, at Springfield, on Friday, June 29. Professor Agassiz, of this University, is to be referee. Our crew will go to their quarters about a week before the race, and will this year be located somewhere above the city, instead of below, as formerly...