Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think it right, however, to state clearly our opinion on the subject of the challenge. There is a tacit agreement between Harvard and Yale that they shall row an eight-oared race every year; of course, until the preliminaries of this race are arranged, no other challenge which might interfere with it can possibly be sent. Last year, for several good reasons, we were forced to refuse Cornell's challenge, and it was only proper that we should challenge her in return, as we have done, at the earliest possible date. The Executive Committee not being composed of jockeys...
...National Regatta. It is suggested that if the National Regatta, held at New York in June, included two races for College Fours and Eights, to be called, respectively, the "Visitors' Cup" and the "Ladies' Cup," nearly all the colleges would send crews to one or both. Cornell, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard would possibly meet in the "Ladies' Cup," while the same colleges, and many of the smaller ones, like Dartmouth, Princeton, etc., would send fours to compete in the other race. Since the disbanding of the Association of American Colleges the smaller institutions have been left out in the cold...
...North being then asked to give some explanations in regard to the form of the challenge which had been sent, stated that it was for an eight-oared three-mile race, time and place to be agreed upon hereafter. Cornell accepted the challenge on condition that the crews should be six-oared, but as Captain North considered a six-oared race "impracticable," and abode by his challenge, this was accepted, after some delay, by the "Cornell Navy," an association understood to correspond to our University Boat-Club...
After this several speeches were made on both sides of the question, but generally in favor of rowing the race...
...Whiting then introduced Captain Bancroft, who declined the responsibility of influencing the class in either direction, thinking it much better that they should decide for themselves. He said that, in his opinion, the class could not honorably withdraw from a race after what had passed, but if they were going to do so, it had better be at once than later. He concluded by proposing a ballot to decide on the general feeling of the class, of which a large majority was present. The motion was carried, and, a ballot being taken, it was decided by a large majority...