Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COMMENCEMENT Day at Harvard falls this year on Wednesday, June 28. General Thomas Sherwin will act as chief marshal, and James Russell Lowell will preside at the after-dinner exercises...
...before the issue of these a College officer could not enter the Yard on Class Day without a ticket from the students, the justice of the measure is hardly to be questioned. The tickets are given to College officers only; and their wives, children, and the strangers that are within their gates derive no more benefit from them than the representatives of the College press, - probably not so much as the Advocate itself...
...Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal of May 4 contains an editorial upon "The American Regattas." It states that "during the past week a gentleman from America [Mr. Frank Rees of Columbia] has visited Oxford and Cambridge, and is going to Dublin to-day, offering different terms to those already sent and declined." The next paragraph is quite startling...
...called International Collegiate Boat-Race was to have been rowed by six-oared crews at Saratoga, on July 19. But in deference to the wishes of Cambridge he [Mr. Rees] says the crews shall be altered to four-oared ones, and that the event shall come off any day up to the 15th of August, which would enable the English crews going to take part in the Henley Regatta before starting, and also at the Philadelphia International Regatta (fixed for the end of August), before leaving...
...riggers was broken. The referee, after hearing both sides of the race, decided that it should be rowed over; but the two inside crews showing an argumentative spirit, it was found impossible to carry this decision into effect, and the race later in the day was given to Guild's crew. The reasons for so doing ought perhaps to be stated. Before the turn, as we have seen, Guild's crew was ahead, and as they went round they were fouled by Page's crew, who were from the moment of the foul out of the race. In the second...