Word: fours
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIR:- The Harvard University Boat Club hereby challenges the Cornell University Boat Club to row a four mile race this spring at such a time and at such a place as may be convenient and agreeable to both crews...
DEAR SIR:- The Cornell Navy accepts the challenge of the Harvard University Boat Club for a four mile race the coming season at such time and place as may be convenient to both crews...
...formed. Such an association could, at least by the convenience of a conference it would afford, facilitate the task of arranging places and dates, in case two eight-oared races are rowed and also aid in broadening the scope of rowing competition by introducing, for instance, rowing in four-oars, pairs or singles...
...Overseers also voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing William Coolidge Lane, A. B., Librarian of the College, and Charles Francis Adams, 2d, A. M., L. L. B., Deputy Treasurer for four months, from Feb. 11, 1898. Mr. Lane graduated from Harvard in '81 and was then made assistant librarian at Gore Hall, until he was called to the Boston Athenaeum in '92. Since then he has filled that position with great proficiency...
DEAR SIR:- The Yale University Boat Club hereby challenges the Cornell University Boat Club to row a four mile, eight oared boat race at New London, Conn., the race to be rowed one week to ten days after our annual race with Harvard, next June. It would be agreeable to us to have you join our dual contest with Harvard and make it a triangular, if satisfactory to them...