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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard could be entered into whereby the winner of the race between them should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/2/1887 | See Source »

...Only the most earnest and strenuous efforts can this year restore Harvard to the position she so long held at the head of track and field athletics in the colleges. Every man who takes an honest pride in the athletic victory of Harvard and feels any shame at her defeat ought to help on the Mott Haven team to the best of his ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1887 | See Source »

...Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden for one man, the 'Varsity captain, to carry, how long would this earnestness and co-operation last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

...whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

...hope, with the Executive Committee once more established, that no body of students will ever again invite defeat in two successive years by breaking away from its control or advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

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