Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then, when I, by right of birth, was chosen to his place...
...single-scull race, which did not take place on the day of the Fall races, was to come off Wednesday afternoon, but was again postponed, on account of the roughness of the water...
...them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then, in the second place, we regard college societies as strictly private bodies, responsible for their actions only to the Faculty...
...Thames cannot be much rougher than the Connecticut at the Peconsic Narrows, which is said to be the roughest place in the whole race, and was yet the starting-place for the last two races...
Supposing, however, the course to be sufficiently smooth, - and, besides what has already been mentioned, we add good, healthy sea-air and the possibility of sea-bathing, - it would seem hard to find a better place for our regattas...