Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think it right, however, to state clearly our opinion on the subject of the challenge. There is a tacit agreement between Harvard and Yale that they shall row an eight-oared race every year; of course, until the preliminaries of this race are arranged, no other challenge which might interfere with it can possibly be sent. Last year, for several good reasons, we were forced to refuse Cornell's challenge, and it was only proper that we should challenge her in return, as we have done, at the earliest possible date. The Executive Committee not being composed of jockeys...
...Regatta. It is suggested that if the National Regatta, held at New York in June, included two races for College Fours and Eights, to be called, respectively, the "Visitors' Cup" and the "Ladies' Cup," nearly all the colleges would send crews to one or both. Cornell, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard would possibly meet in the "Ladies' Cup," while the same colleges, and many of the smaller ones, like Dartmouth, Princeton, etc., would send fours to compete in the other race. Since the disbanding of the Association of American Colleges the smaller institutions have been left out in the cold...
...Oxford neither threw down the gauntlet to American colleges, nor did they take it up, or purpose doing so. If any college enters at Henley and takes its chance of meeting an Oxford or Cambridge boat, every facility and a hearty welcome will be afforded them. Because Oxford accepted Harvard's challenge once, is no reason why she should accept it again, much less that of any other college...
...average of these sports is above ours; but if we reflect upon the many advantages of turf, weather, etc. that they possess over us, we need not feel discouraged. When the much-talked-of track is laid on Jarvis, Harvard men will have no excuse for not training well, and we feel confident that we can, by a little exertion in the right direction, improve our own record a great deal, if in fact we do not equal this of Oxford and Cambridge...
...Wednesday evening a meeting of the Harvard University Foot-Ball Club was held in Holden Chapel, Mr. L. N. Littauer presiding. The Treasurer's Report was read and accepted. The figures will be found in our Brevity column...