Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SWIFT JOHNSON, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, but being an alien his right to it is disputed, and the matter is to be argued before the University authorities...
Columbia. - The Columbia Four and one substitute sailed for England on the 23d inst. It is criticised as being a fair crew, about on a par with the Dublin Four which came over here to row in the Centennial Regatta...
...March 10, near Dublin, Ireland, was kicked the Annual International match between England and Ireland, and England proved the winner by a score of two goals and a touch-down to nothing...
...Although Columbia has no claim to represent the Champion American College Four, she has as good a right as any so to do." The N. Y. Spirit says, "Columbia's performances at the Centennial are overestimated. The British crews she met there were not the fastest crews in England. Dublin had no rank at home: Cambridge was no University Four, but a volunteer party from the various College Rowing Clubs; the London Four had only two of its regular men. We notify English oarsmen that when they beat Columbia, they beat a crew never within sight of the American Amateur...
...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...