Word: races
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race after years of denial...
Intent on a race that came off the next...
...race was exciting, - all Harvard was present...
...RACE for single-sculls had been arranged to take place yesterday between Messrs. Le Moyne, Danforth, and Denton, under the direction of the executive committee of the H. U. B. C., - the winner to go to Saratoga as the representative of the College. The roughness of the water interfered with the plans of the committee, and the race had to be postponed until to-morrow, when it will take place (D. V.) over the Charles River course at ten o'clock...
...weeks from to-day the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed at Springfield; an event which must attract, besides the friends of the two colleges, many spectators, because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect...