Word: crew
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman Crew were out in a shell on Friday last for the first time...
AFTER many days, the question of the Freshman race with Cornell is happily settled. The crew is now in fine condition, and since a positive decision has been reached, the subscriptions to pay their expenses have increased daily. We may therefore hope for a successful race; but whether the Freshmen win or not, they still deserve to be congratulated on the victory they have won over their own apathy. In conclusion, we offer them our best wishes for all sorts of good fortune in the future, and a little more prudence...
...negative, is printed in this issue. Our challenge, which the Ithaca newspapers considered as highly impertinent, was understood in its right spirit by the members of the Cornell Navy, and it is only the peculiar conditions laid down in our letter, and the previous arrangements of the Cornell crew, that prevent them from rowing a race which would be of advantage to both colleges. A private letter, which the Secretary of the H. U. B. C. received from the Commodore of the Cornell Navy, contains a hearty expression of the good feeling towards Harvard that exists at Cornell...
...democratic country like America, every man, no matter what his birth or station, is entitled to be considered a gentleman until he proves himself otherwise, and therefore is classed as amateur until he enters the professional ranks. That it would be a bitter pill for an English crew, composed possibly of English blue blood, to be defeated by a crew of horny-fisted American carpenters, every one must see; still, as the English sporting motto is supposed to be "Let the best man win," it would seem that our transatlantic cousins might suppress their aristocratic pride in the interest...
Yale. - Kennedy of Yale will not go to Watkins, either as a sculler or with a crew, owing to business matters. His absence will be regretted by all who are interested in rowing, as he is probably the finest amateur sculler in the country, and in event of winning at Watkins, would ably represent both America and his college at Henley, and give the English scullers all they could do to get away from...