Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accept, but while we were training for the race on the Thames with Oxford, I met ex-President Brandagee of the Harvard club, and he again extended the invitation. I spoke to our captain, but nothing was done, because we were so busy. After the race the matter was talked over, and I wrote privately to Mr. Coolidge of the Harvard club...
...committee was appointed, with Treasurer Morgan as chairman, to take charge of the matter, and letters were at once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would...
...Whether Harvard will outrow Yale is another matter. Yale has the advantage this year of an accomplished coach, Perry Bolton. They are a set of large, beefy men, in superb condition, and are pulling about ten miles a day. They are raw and ragged in their work in the boat. Their raggedness, however, is so much more noticeable than Harvard's that I have based my opinion as to Harvard's probable chances upon it. A new coxswain goes in the Yale boat this year. Thompson, a little freshman weighing less than 100 pounds, will take the seat in which...
...matter of rights, private and State companies are about the same. No administration could allow State railroads to lose money, when private ones are making it. So State roads resort to all sorts of tricks to get traffic. As a result in Belgium and Germany roads, competing lines are brought up. In Prussia a great amount of business is gained by making exceptions to State laws. Prussian rates are lower than in upper Europe; in France and Austria, a little higher; in England, a little more; in America, rates higher still. American freight rates are 1 1-8 cents...
...over the world, and the latter university are to be congratulated on the success which their representatives have met with in inducing the Cantabs to cross the Atlantic. Mr. E. D. Brandegee and Mr. Arthur B. Fainzel, although they have not yet been able to absolutely settle the matter, have carried the negotiations so far that practically everything is arranged, and, unless something unforeseen happens, the visit will take place. - Boston Herald...