Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...challenge from the H. U. B. C. for an eight-oared race has been formally accepted by the Yale navy...
...candidates for the University crew are Legate, Lemoyne, Harriman, of '77; Bancroft, Loring, Lemoyne, Littauer, Harding, of '78; Jacobs, Brigham, Schwartz, Crocker, Preston, Smith, of '79. An eight and six are still on the river. Mr. Dana of the Law School is looking after the "torpids...
...good price, and the taxes upon the property must amount to quite a sum. He expects, no doubt, to be paid an excellent rate of interest upon all this investment, and, judging from the fact that the owner of Little's Block has an annual return of eight per cent, we see no reason to suppose that he will be disappointed. Now, if the College had built such a building upon some of the land lying useless in the yard, what would have been the result? They would have had the land for nothing, paid no taxes on the building...
...game last spring, it was largely science against strength. Their long kicks were fine to look at, but really availed them little. Their sending eight or nine men into a rush did no good, for there was no one to be rushed, as Rollins would invariably kick the ball one side and then get out of the way. They ran till they were caught, and then "had it down." Harvard's men ran as far as they could and then passed it, and had a decided advantage throughout the game. In justice to the Canadians, it should be said that...
...request tendered to Harvard by Trinity, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams, to aid in forming a new Boating Association, we cannot entertain. In leaving the American Association we signified as our reasons for so doing, that we wished to be represented in future by an eight-oared crew, and that the number of boats contesting decreased the pleasure and interest in the Association races. The objection to the new association is not only the inconvenient number of contesting boats, but they will row in sixes if not in fours. Had the persons who have the project in hand considered Harvard...