Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FERRY, of Yale, recently obtained a subscription of nearly a thousand dollars for boating purposes among the graduates of that College in Chicago. At Wesleyan, Middletown, Conn., in order to raise funds for the crew, two concerts are to be given, and, in addition, a lecture by James T Fields...
...meeting of the Sophomore Class, January 14, Mr. E. C. Hall was elected Captain of the crew; Mr. H. P. Jaques, Treasurer: Mr. R. W. Curtis, Secretary; Messrs. Kittredge and Nickerson the Executive Committee...
...University crew will be substantially the same as last year. Among the candidates - in fact, the only one who is professedly so - is a member of the Law School. It is to be regretted that there is so little interest exhibited among the lower classes. Not only have none of them supplied any candidates, but, in addition, the subscriptions, particularly from the Freshman Class, have been miserably small. It has been one of the most cherished wishes of the University that a new crew should take their place at the next regatta, but that appears now to be impossible...
...other American representatives to stay at home, they tell us to keep on rowing, striving as heartily as we have done, and perhaps the next generation of Englishmen may meet us on the water as equals. At present it is deemed but idle for even a second-rate crew to measure oars with the best we can bring out. There is a good deal of bombast in this, and reminds one of a bully who boasts when thinking himself safe from fight. We have never rowed but once with an English university, and at that time, although beaten, the result...
...England to consent to a contest in American waters. She may be assured of every courtesy and advantage at our hands, and whatever the result, no dissatisfaction could be felt. In such an event we should in all probability send our best material; if England sends a second-rate crew, she does it at her peril...