Word: openings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...difficult for men with any knowledge of music and with fair voices, and much less can we believe that they are too difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly open to the charge of being too difficult; many of the College songs he would like sung are certainly much harder to master. There is no reason why we should not hear a few college songs from the Glee Club, but there is every reason why the Club should not devote itself exclusively...
...earliest possible date. The Executive Committee not being composed of jockeys and blacklegs, it was never supposed that they could be so misinterpreted, or they would have guarded themselves more carefully against the Era. As the matter stands, we have challenged Cornell in a perfectly fair and open manner, and it is their own affair whether they accep or not; they can do either with perfect credit to themselves...
...Best (2 yards start), 23 3/5 sec.; 440 yards, J. Y. Dawbarn, 57 1/5 sec.; 880-yards handicap, J. Parkin, (scratch), 2 min. 14 2/5 sec.; high jump, J. D. Best, 4 ft. 11 1/2 in.; mile-race, J. Parkin, 5 min. 14 4/5 sec.; 120-yards open race, T. A. Wallis (9 yards start...
...yards, J. B. Beard, 57 1/5 sec.; 200-yards Freshman race, A. Leahy, 24 sec.; wide jump, S. Palmer 19 ft. 9 in.; 120-yards hurdle, S. Palmer (penalized 4 yards), 19 2/5 sec.; mile-race, D. Wheeler (penalized 30 yards), 5 min. 8 1/5 sec.; 440-yards open handicap, R. Boughton-Lee, 34 yards...
Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races...