Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is soon to be a meeting of the representatives of Yale and Harvard at New London, to decide upon the details of next summer's race...
...them; Yale would not accept; Princeton has no navy; but at Cornell the challenge has been taken into consideration, and the probabilities are that it will be accepted. Cornell appears to be all enthusiasm to revive a college sport for which she has so many advantages, and if the race is decided on she will probably send a formidable crew. We hope that the rowing interest will be awakened among our Freshmen, and that it will call forth the good material they undoubtedly possess. At the same time they would do well to remember the answer sent by the Columbia...
THIS morning's despatches announce that the Oxford University crew have decided to challenge the Columbia College four, who are expected at Henley, to row a race from Putney to Mortlake for the college championship of the world. If the Columbia four defeat the Oxford crew, then the Cambridge University crew will row the American crew. The organ of the Universities says, if the Columbia College crew who are to row at Henley are the champion four of the Universities of America, there will probably be another international race on the Thames. Both Oxford and Cambridge have agreed to select...
...they are looked down on by all the other classes. Perhaps, however, one of the reasons of their unpopularity is the fact that they come here no longer as boys, and are not willing to be treated as such. They do not recognize the upper classmen as a superior race, and they dislike especially to be sneered at by men who were so recently in the same position, i. e. by Sophomores...
COLUMBIA, disappointed in her hopes of a race with Harvard, has pluckily decided to send a four to England to meet the best amateur crews of Great Britain at the Henley Regatta in June. Messrs. Godwin, Sage, Colgate, Boyd, and Edson, substitute, will probably form Columbia's crew. Of these gentlemen, all but Mr. Boyd were on the eight which rowed at Springfield. A subscription ball will be given at Delmonico's on June 16 to help defray the crew's expenses. We sincerely hope that Columbia will be able to carry out her plan, and we assure...