Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certain stipulations suggested should be agreed to by responsible parties at Saratoga, secured by bonds of forfeiture with a monetary consideration, such contracts to be made with and to the satisfaction of the members of the Regatta Committee before the April meeting, when, if not completed, the question of place will be still open. Report of Committee accepted by Convention, and the thanks of the Convention were returned to the Mayor and Committee of New London. Also to the Saratoga R. A. for their kindness in the past, and their offers of the present year. Mayor Waller left the offer...
...first place, the writer says that "the admirable finish and coloring which are now given to cathedral glass in American factories remove the necessity of importation." This is entirely wrong, since every piece of cathedral and antique glass which is used in the construction of windows in this country has to be imported, and that, too, from a few firms in England, as there are no other manufacturers either on the Continent or in America...
...next place the statement is made, that a contribution of $3 from each student would cover the entire expense of a window. Call the average class 160 members. This contribution would amount to $480. For $480 a window could be purchased, and that is all. It would be no great improvement on the ones already in the Hall. Indeed, about the only difference between it and them would consist in the substitution of colored for white glass. At this price comparatively cheap glass would have to be used, and consequently all those beautiful effects obtained from the rich tints...
...second mile Vassar was still ahead, leading Ah Sin by five lengths; Harvard, however, had now gained the 497th place, our colored brethren, by strict attention to business, having succeeded in passing Yale...
Deafening cheers for Harvard greeted this achievement. Bets of two to one were offered that she would not come in last, when an unlooked-for circumstance took place which eventually gave the victory to our College. When three fourths of a mile from the stake-boat, the Indian crew, spurting, overhauled the Chinamen, and through the carelessness of Jim-Jam, the bow-oar of Ah Sin, the two boats fouled; the boats which were closely following these two crews, in endeavoring to avoid a collision with them, fouled each other, and in an incredibly short space of time the course...