Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...timed, when we reflect that the action of that committee was indorsed by a boating meeting, and when their reasons for "procrastination" are known by most men in college. It does not seem so difficult to apprehend why the Executive Committee should hesitate to bind the College to a race with Cornell, at present our most doughty adversary, when they foresaw as possible what has now happened. We are at a loss to know to whom the term "boating representatives" applies; if by it are meant the crew, we think the Advocate fails to appreciate their feelings, for their withdrawal...
...Navy Directors, in so far as they are connected with and dependent upon the students at large. have acted lately in a manner which is liable to criticism. Last fall the University was surprised to hear that we had challenged Harvard to a race next summer, and that a meeting had been called to ratify the challenge. One would naturally suppose that the students who bear the expense, and without whose money the race could not be accomplished, would have been consulted in the matter before the challenge was sent; but such a proceeding would not have been in accordance...
...Much surprise was occasioned in the last week of last term by the withdrawal of the challenge to Harvard for a university boat-race next summer. Many remarks upon the action of our Navy Directors were made, some favorable, more expressing disapproval, but by this time the general sentiment of the students is with the Directors and indorses their action...
...Looking to you as best representing the boating interests of your University, I take the liberty of a letter asking your attention and answer as early as you will allow. You will recollect that the coming season brings the tenth anniversary of Oxford's victory over Harvard in a race from Putney to Mortlake. To-day at Cambridge there is a strong desire that a race may be rowed the next summer to again try the good rowing of the two universities. In '69 the trial was hardly a satisfactory one, being out of course in that but four-oared...
...like a representative eight to row in August are very great, as I am sure you would feel if you were in my position. The Oxford summer term ends early in June, and the men by that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity Race...