Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unpaid subscriptions to the amount of $1,347.50, as shown by the Treasurer's list; thus showing a balance of assets over all present liabilities of $963.05, which amount properly should stand to-day as cash in the Treasurer's hands. The probable expense for the coming race with Yale may be put down as $1,500, which should cover all the cost of boats, training, &c., for the crew themselves show a determination to the strictest economy. To meet this outlay of some $600 we have the promise of theatricals and some little help from graduates. It remains...
...your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices, and for giving him several awful warnings on the sin of hating a man because he wears a peculiar-shaped hat. Alas! I am afraid that in this respect the human race is incorrigible, so I will give the reader, instead of a tirade, some estimates of their character that I have formed from men's books. I do not mean literary character; for to tell the readers of the Crimson that I have discovered a man's literary tastes by examining...
...Since September last the bills of the Yale navy, to the amount of two thousand dollars, have been paid up, so that the race with Harvard can take place shortly after Commencement...
...wish to remind the boat-clubs that Weld is the only crew that goes out regularly, and that an exciting race cannot be had unless all the crews are in pretty equal condition...
...Saturday last, the president, vice-president, and captain of the Boat Club visited New London for the purpose of ascertaining what were the facilities and accommodations in case the next race be rowed there. They were most hospitably entertained by several prominent citizens, and taken in a tug over the proposed course. This course is perfectly straight for six miles, and is sheltered from the prevailing winds by a point of land at its lower end, on which the grand stand would be erected. From the stand the whole course could be seen; and, moreover, on one side...