Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race at New London. At a meeting of the Yale freshmen Monday night it was voted to accept the challenge. The race will probably be rowed the same day as the Harvard-Yale University race. The Yale freshman feel very bitter against the Harvard freshmen for their refusal to permit the Yale crew to participate in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, and if Yale defeats the Pennsylvania crew, it is proposed to challenge the winner of the Harvard-Columbia freshman race. - Boston Herald...
...income therefrom being already available for the support of work at the Observatory. The addition of this fund to those previously available raises the endowment of the institution to a little short of $400,000. This recent increase in the means of the Observatory, Prof. Pickering states, will ultimately permit a corresponding extension in its work, but for the moment will largely be required for the publication of observations already make, and for effecting permanent improvements in the condition of the institution which have long been urgently needed. The remounting of the large telescope, and a new Observatory building...
...fact that the class crews are now upon the water shows that it will not be long before the weather will be warm enough to melt the little snow now upon the ground, and permit the candidates for the 'Varsity nine to practice regularly on Jarvis field. Before the nine goes upon the field it may be interesting to examine what the candidates have been doing in the gymnasium during the winter months preparatory to beginning active training out of doors...
...Permit me through your columns to make a brief report of the finances of the Boat Club...
Last year we made an exception to a custom of long standing; this year we would no longer make an exception, but go very far towards establishing a new practice. Yale's being admitted this year, means, practically, admittance every year. If we permit Yale to enter this race, the time does not seem to be very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga...