Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual regattas of the last six seasons have increased steadily in importance, representing an equally steady growth in its own character and influence. It is controlled by an executive committee of nine, who at present represent boat-clubs situated at New York, Newark, Albany, Providence, Philadelphia (2), Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago, and who were all (save the last named) in attendance at the regular semi-annual meeting held in this city, January 11. I myself was present there by invitation, and was impressed by the straightforward, business-like way in which the accumulated work of the evening was disposed...
...students in any college to set themselves above newspaper reporters is the most amazing impudence," loudly exclaims the Detroit Post, which goes...
...Convention of Boating-Men met, as you know, at Omaha last winter, and decided to hold the next regatta at Detroit, on July 25; moreover, Harvard was granted permission henceforth to choose material for her University crews from the association of colored waiters at Memorial Hall, in consideration of the fact that members of the Law School have always been excluded from rowing on the 'Varsity. As soon as the Convention adjourned our delegates hastened back to Cambridge, and at their recommendation the colored waiters were set to work, between meals, in the Gymnasium. At the spring races they entered...
...only incident of the voyage between Buffalo and Detroit was the capture and execution of a band of cutthroats hired by Trinity to place torpedoes in the Detroit River for the purpose of destroying our fleet...
...Roberts, Detroit, Mich.; class '75; age, 25; weight, 175 lbs.; height...