Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There seems to be a general feeling among the students at Cornell that their nine this year is going to be exceptionally fine The Sun and Era are full of predictions of the great glory the nine is sure...
...fall scratch races, seems to have been given up this year. It seems an especial pity that this should be so, because, as every one knows, the scratch races made up a part of the 250th anniversary celebration and so, to those who have no other trophy of the great anniversary, the cups would be of double value. Therefore I suggest that the H. U. B. C. get the cups at once and also that they have the cups - as prizes won during the celebration of the 250th anniversary of our college - appropriately inscribed...
...clipping from the Boston Globe in regard to the Columbia race. The fact that Yale and Columbia have patched up a combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews, and we must say that Columbia shows great presumption...
...Columbia will throw her influence strongly in favor of admitting the Yale freshmen to the race, while Yale will favor the admission of the Columbia 'Varsity Crew to the great Harvard-Yale race, which has become the leading sporting event of the season in this country. Columbia had a crew last year that defeated the crack eight from Cambridge and would undoubtedly have given Yale a hot race had the two crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered...
...Great disappointment was felt that the 'Varsity did not come out. There will be opportunities enough, however, to observe their prowess. The Yale crew, on the other hand, has been on the water for three weeks. Last year the season opened on the fifteenth, a day later than this year...