Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale-Harvard boat-race will be rowed on the Thames River, New London, Conn., Friday, June 27, at 4.30 P. M. Should rough water cause a postponement, the race will be attempted about twenty-four hours later. Copies of the BOAT-RACE BULLETIN may be obtained gratuitously as follows: New York, The World office, or Brentano's; Boston, The Advertiser office; New Haven, Gulliver's; New London, the Crocker House; Cambridge, Sever's. Applications by mail will be attended to at the Crocker House only. A second bulletin will be issued June 23, and a third on the morning...
...when a student has a hat with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students are in training for the position of bank-defaulters after graduation, and that they served as telegraph-boys before their entrance here, - they certainly must have had some Fagan to teach them the trade. I should recommend...
...Williams Athenaeum is devoted mainly to sarcastic allusions to the Faculty, who, it seems, have been treating the luckless students with great severity. Four Freshmen have been suspended for "'putting a wall between themselves and a college officer,' i. e. tossing ball by East College, and running when they saw him coming." The Glee Club, too, in order to pay off a debt, had arranged to give several concerts in the neighboring towns; but the permission of the Faculty was at first flatly refused, but finally was granted, with great reluctance, accompanied by a reprimand. The same august body...
...Freshman race with Columbia is off. Last Saturday the Captain of '82 received an official visit from Messrs. Parsons and Webb of Columbia, the latter being Captain of the Columbia Freshmen. They informed Captain Bartlett that out of the four eight-oared crews in training they had but seven men left, and, therefore, could not possibly row the race. It was suggested that the vacancy in the boat should be filled by a University oar, but this did not meet the approval of the Columbia delegates; the crews have therefore disbanded...
...Four-oared match, Cornell vs. Watkins B. C., 2 miles with turn. Watkins B. C., first, 13 m. 24 s.; Cornell Navy second, by a half mile...