Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication to last Friday's CRIMSON it was justly urged that unless the conflict of dates between Class Day and the boat race can be prevented there will be a general feeling of dissatisfaction in the Senior class, shared in by the rest of the college...
This boat race will be the most interesting athletic event in which Harvard will have participated for several years past. A race with Cornell alone would be attended by a large contingent from every class; but the entrance of Yale into the contest lends it a double interest, so that it is safe to say that every Harvard man who can afford the expense would wish to go to Poughkeepsie this year...
...question then arises, is this the necessary law of human progress? Many things go to show that it is not. Not only better results, but better methods may be gradually evolved by the law of evolution itself. The whole question is one of price. The development of the race is to go on. The question is what price shall...
Another plan is to hole the Class Day exercises on Wednesday and Thursday, instead of on Thursday and Friday as now proposed, and to leave the date of the boat race the same. This scheme seems practicable and would allow Harvard men to be present at both of the events. The date of the Yale baseball game could probably be made a day earlier without much difficulty. There is also, however, an objection to this plan: it is doubtful if the Faculty would permit Class Day to be held any earlier on account of the resulting conflict with the last...
...looks therefore as though the boat race and the Class Day exercises would have to come at the same time this year...