Word: junes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...debate. One thing is certain, however, that the accommodations for man and beast at New London are entirely insufficient on such an occasion as an inter-University race, and that strenuous efforts should be made to prevent a repetition of the famine that raged there the 28th of last June...
...annual University race between the two old colleges is rowed at New London on the last Friday afternoon of June, a greater number of the people who are interested in the competition can attend it - and at a far less sacrifice of money, time, and comfort - than could attend it at any other place. Last summer's crowd was much larger than any which had previously assembled on any similar occasion in America, and it is fair to presume that if next June's crews are believed to be evenly matched, the attendance will be doubled. But New London offers...
...that Yale ought to refrain from sending a crew to New London to meet that of Harvard, unless the latter would agree to discountenance the presence of all other crews upon the course during the five days which precede and the five which follow the day of the race (June 27), I earnestly seconded the recommendation. The Yale undergraduates, indeed, show no disposition to resort to such an extreme measure, both because they are not convinced of the seriousness of the possible consequences which might result from the presence of other crews at New London, and because they dislike...
...race with Harvard next summer, stating that it will be impossible to keep a University crew in training up to August 1. The text of the letter will be found in another column. The reasons given for declining the proposal are that the Oxford term ends early in June, that the 'Varsity men do not keep together after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep in trim through the summer. Oxford is not confident of beating Cambridge, as six of last year's crew have left...
...match, and feel most flattered by it, yet at the same time the difficulties of getting together anything like a representative eight to row in August are very great, as I am sure you would feel if you were in my position. The Oxford summer term ends early in June, and the men by that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another...