Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have heard some dissatisfaction expressed at the tedious delays that took place between the races on Saturday. Those who complain may not always remember that much of the delay is occasioned by the fact that some men are entered for two consecutive races; and these men can hardly be expected to step from one boat into the other without some rest. Still the time that intervened between two successive races was, in nearly every case, unnecessarily long. We should like to call the attention of the several captains to this point in the races to-day; as we feel sure...
...Nine left for Princeton last evening. On their way they will play the Chelseas, of Brooklyn, to-day. The Princeton game takes place on Saturday, and the Nine will return home the first of the week. Owing to the failure of the Manchesters to put in an appearance on Tuesday, more than seven hundred people were turned away from the gates. The next game with the Manchesters will be played at Manchester, Thursday, May 21; and on Decoration Day the Nine will play the Lowells at Lowell...
...Williams Athenoeum has a new board of editors, who set forth a very sensible credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
...same coxswain will steer this year as last, unless something unforeseen occurs, in which case several very good men who have lately appeared on the river are ready to take his place...
...contrary to expectation, the entry-book was well filled on Friday evening, there being thirty-four names entered for the six-oars and thirty-two for the four-oars. There was the usual tardiness in getting started, and it was almost twelve o'clock before the first race took place...