Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said that a prominent gentleman connected with the college has offered to subscribe $1,000 towards sending the crew to England...
...unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake to row a race when the amount of money that can be raised to support the crew is still a vague uncertainty: it is also well, before sending a challenge, to consult those who have had somewhat more than a few months' experience in rowing. But these are not the only morals to be drawn. One of the causes of '81's ill success this year...
...many amusing things that the reader of the daily papers has found this summer, the most absurd probably are the "resolutions" passed by the Aldermen of New York in honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers...
...Harvard University Crew. - Alvah Crocker (bow), N. M. Brigham (No. 2), B J. Legate (No. 3), M. R. Jacobs (No. 4), V. D. L. Stow (No. 5), W. U. Schwartz (No. 6), F. W. Smith (No. 7), W. A. Bancroft (stroke and captain), F. H. Allen (coxswain). Time...
...Yale University Crew. - J. W. Curtis (bow), F. E. Hyde (No 2), B. S. Keator (No. 3), H. Livingston (No. 4), H. W. Taft (No. 5), G. B. Rogers (No 6), D. Trumbull (No. 7), O. D. Thompson (stroke and captain), C. F. Aldrich (coxswain). Time...