Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...items of the debt were as follows: E. E. Water & Sons, due on shell, $206.00; '88 class crew, for one half-cost of boat broken in halves by the boat club last year, $181; Boston Tow Boat Company, for lifting launch on and off the cars, $80; class race flags, $50; Gynne & Co., $3; Gordon Dexter, for running expenses of launch last year, $161; C. D. Wilder & Co., $4.75, and $50 due Thomas Fearson on a pair-oared bought...
...morrow the crew will row in the 17th of June regatta on the Charles. A number of other eights from the Bradford, Crescent and Union boat clubs will probably enter the race. This would afford college men an excellent opportunity for watching the crew before they leave for New London, and it is to be hoped that a number will be at the finish on the Beacon street wall. Friday's morning papers will probably tell the exact time when the boats start...
...addition of able scholars. The prospect which then opens before us for an enlargement of the field of instruction is both pleasing and encouraging as an evidence that, with due equipment, the United States will be able to compete with the great educational institutions of the world in the race after knowledge...
...Varsity crew has been unable to arrange a race with the Union Boat Club eight this year...
...Some one must take the inititative in the matter. In my opinion, the proper way would be to organize a committee composed of graduates, and representing the different colleges which might desire to enter the race, to send an invitation to the English university crews...