Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said, of course, that if a student is worth making anything of, he should need no incentive so sordid as money; he should seek improvement for its own sake, and give his less fortunate brother a chance, - in other words, give him the race. For it is the more wealthy student, tempted by the pleasures of society, who needs the spur of emulation. The University has no business to assume that some men are less selfish than others; nor is it its province to see how many men of one class it can educate more than those of another...
...allow those who thought they could make better time without coxswains to do so. All boats, we think, should be on the same footing, and the considerations in favor of coxswains are many besides that of time, which, in fact, is of small consequence any way in an amateur race. The motion, it was thought by Harvard, would certainly be lost in a Convention which had just voted in favor of coxswains, and consequently was not strenuously opposed. On the vote, Columbia voted ay, which divided the house; and the President, according to a former precedent, which in this case...
...motion of Mr. Ferry, it was decided to have two gentlemen, not graduates of colleges, but familiar with boating matters, to serve as witnesses of the race, to be called upon by the judges in case of any disagreement. On motion of Yale, it was also carried to allow a judge to every college, and to levy a tax of $25 on each college, to provide flags for the Freshman race and a flag for the single-scull race, the former not to exceed the value of $60, and the latter of $30. Each college then presented the name...
...also decided that the single-scull race should be in all respects subject to the Constitution and rules of the Association. A motion was then made and carried that any cups offered as prizes by the citizens of the town in which the regatta is held would be accepted by the Association. The Convention then adjourned to the Massasoit House, Springfield, at ten o'clock on the first Monday in April...
...satisfactory to us all; and we regard the substitution of the National American Regatta rules for the old Rowing Association rules as the most important and wisest action of the convention. The two most important changes involved in this substitution are the relegation of the charge of the whole race, from the time of its appointment, to the referee, and the provision whereby every boat leaves its water at its own pier, so that washing is done away with. The practical nullification of the action of the convention in favor of coxswains, by the proposition of Yale to allow colleges...