Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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University of Pennsylvania has challenged Yale to an eight-oared race. It is understood that Yale will accept...
...life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should not hear much about officiousness. The majority now have matters absolutely in their own hands, it they will say their soul's their own. It will be a strange thing under...
...noticed in your issue of the 25th that the date of the race for the single scull "Challenge Cup," presented last year by Messrs. Thayer and Carroll, '85, is announced for some day between June 10th and 15th. In this race there is also a cup offered by the Boat Club for men who have never rowed a single scull race in college. The race thus offers inducements for those who have but little experience in single sculling. Indeed, in the present pititiable condition of single sculling, the merest tyro need have no hesitation in entering...
...earnestly to be hoped that all men who have ever done any sculling at all, will come forward and make the race a success. That the race falls at so late a date should deter none from entering. No one is at present in training for the event, and all have an equal chance. That the race should fall in examination time is perhaps a pity, but we are sure that a short spin on the river in the afternoon will injure no one in his examinations...
...last single scull race with Yale was in '79, when Mr. Goddard of Harvard defeated Mr. Livingston of Yale at Worcester. In the following year Mr. Hall won the inter-collegiate single sculls for Harvard at the National Regatta. This seems to have been the last gasp of single sculling here; since then we have had no single scull races of note...