Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OXFORD, as every one knows by this time, has sent a reply to the H. U. B. C. relative to a race with Harvard next summer, stating that it will be impossible to keep a University crew in training up to August 1. The text of the letter will be found in another column. The reasons given for declining the proposal are that the Oxford term ends early in June, that the 'Varsity men do not keep together after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep...
...another victory for us at New London. Now that we have lost the championship in football, and the prospects in base-ball are anything but encouraging, it devolves upon the crew all the more to sustain the honor and reputation of Harvard, and as all the arrangements for a race with Yale have been completed, it would seem a pity that, because of a little apathy on the part of the crew, we should run the risk of defeat while we still have such splendid stuff in college. We trust that the officers of the H. U. B. C. will...
...currently reported, she has made use of our sporting column for that purpose. The position of the two colleges is this: if Oxford accepts Harvard's challenge, we must go abroad and row her, and we must go entirely without reference to winning or losing our race or races in this country. With Yale we must row in any case; with Columbia and Cornell probably. Suppose that Yale, Columbia, and Cornell were all to beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race...
...Courant is non-committal on the subject of an American Henley, but suggests that there be a single race for class crews. There is another boating letter from "A Yale Graduate," from which we clip the following: "Our sister university is undoubtedly cock of the walk as regards rowing, at least for the present, and she knows it. We admire her wonderful crew, as does everybody else, and say 'Go over the water, friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels...
Oxford. - Belts Life, in speaking of our proposed race with Oxford, says that it is improbable that that college will row Harvard, as the general University sentiment seems to be against it. This paper also says, in speaking of our race with Oxford in 1869, that Oxford's crew was the best four-oar she ever...