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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College papers are always filled with complaints about the required themes and forensics, now because they are too numerous, and again because they are too few; now because the subjects are too difficult, and again - but no, I don't remember that the subjects are ever criticised as being too easy...
...great deal in athletics in a comparatively short time. We do not speak of the meeting as an unqualified success, for the entries were far too scanty, and some of the times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best man had some one more nearly his equal to push him; but in the races mentioned above, the contestants being...
...fortnight's training on the Thames. It seems a great deal to ask of English crews that they should keep in practice four months after their annual regatta; but Oxford ought to consent to this sacrifice of the summer, for she has owed us a race ever since our memorable defeat in '69. That we have decided to row, if possible, the English Universities, is due on the one hand to the graduates, for without their pecuniary aid we could have done nothing; and to the Crew of '78, on the other hand, for without their hearty enthusiasm the project...
...Peabody of Cambridge, England, formerly captain of the Trinity first eight, on being asked his opinion, said he considered our crew much better than an average English crew, but not better than the best, for, although the material was as good as any he had ever seen, in form and finish they were inferior to the best English crew's. He, too, when asked, went on to say that he thought Cambridge would not accept a challenge, as their crew this year is an inferior one, but that Oxford probably would, as Harvard is considered there the representative college...
...races were successful, at least in some respects. The records in the 100-yards dash and the 120-yards are far superior to anything ever made at Harvard, and should encourage other men to try and reduce the times of other years. The handicapping was a great success, and tempts us to say that it will be well for the Association to institute handicaps in everything next spring. The officers of the course were: Referee, F. W. Thayer, '78; Judges, S. Butler, '77, H. G. Danforth, '77, R. Trimble, '80, W. Kane, '82; Timekeepers, W. Twombley, '79, and W. Hooper...