Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SOME four months ago, when it became certain that the crew which had so nobly acquitted itself in '77 and '78 had disbanded, Harvard and Harvard's friends were bitterly disappointed. An intercollegiate contest can excite but small interest unless each college is represented by its best men. However, we were not in a position to grumble. To find fault with men to whom we were under so many obligations would have been worse than ingratitude. We could only hope that some new and unexpected material would show itself, or still better, that the old crew might relent. New material...
...medals will be given for all the events, except the tug-of war, for which sets of colors will probably be the prizes. The college events are: I-mile walk, 1/2-mile run, 75-yards dash, I-mile run, 1/4-mile run, 220-yards hurdle, and tug-of-war (teams of four men each...
...Princetonian says: "We cannot but regard the recent appearance of the Instrumental Club at Elizabeth, and of the University Quartette at Elizabeth and Sing-Sing, as a sign of increased energy in musical affairs." We would suggest that the recent appearance of twenty-four Princeton students in the streets of Trenton as public singers should have been included under the head of "increased energy in musical affairs...
...well known that the Passaic, Triton, and Eureka boat-clubs of Newark have intrusted to the N. A. A. O. three massive silver cups, to be annually offered as challenge prizes, for the exclusive competition of undergraduate oarsmen, rowing respectively in eights, fours, and singles. The races are to be straightaway, and the definition of "undergraduate" is to be the same as that which was maintained by the R. A. A. C. during the last four years of its history. The races are to be rowed either at Newark or Saratoga, during the first week of July...
...only colleges as yet definitely committed to the support of the new scheme are Wesleyan and Bowdoin, which have wisely decided to compete for the four-oared prize of the N. A. A. O., rather than row a special race with one another as previously arranged. Wesleyan already has fifteen man in training. At Princeton and Rutgers there is considerable talk of entering for the same prize, and another possible competitor is the University of Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce...