Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Executive Committee of the Freshman Class to make the arrangements for the race with Columbia are Captain Bartlett and Mr. F. Warren. Mr. G. W. Williams is Secretary and Treasurer...
...meeting of the Freshman Class on Wednesday evening last an acceptance was read from the Columbia Freshmen of the challenge to row an eight-orared, straightaway race with coxswains, time to be agreed upon hereafter. The Columbia Freshmen also accepted the suggestion of New London as a suitable place, and the race will, therefore, be rowed there. The President of the class was authorized to appoint a committee of three to arrange all matters pertaining to the race...
...forgotten that open scholarships would be fully available for all who are now able to avow necessitous circumstances, provided their work was good enough to gain them. The change would consist simply in completing the halting analogy between a scholarship and "a silver cup won in a boat race," - the winner of this latter "prize" not being forced to remember that a majority of the class (including, perhaps, some of the best oarsmen) were restrained from competing. Scholarships open to all would undoubtedly attract to Harvard men who ought to be here, but who are so situated that they cannot...
...London is indeed no place for a long-drawn-out "regatta tournament," or series of races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds...
...more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably produced dissatisfaction on the part of the crews and the spectators, or both, I have become thoroughly convinced that the only hope of permanently establishing the annual University race at New London upon a satisfactory basis lies in keeping it absolutely disconnected from all other contests. So essential does it seem to me that the presumption raised in favor of the Thames course by the first fortunate trial of it should be strengthened by the satisfactory experience of several successive...