Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inter-Collegiate Rowing Association, comprising Brown, Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, will row their annual race in July, on Lake George...
...challenging our freshmen to a race, Yale has undertaken to renew a custom which existed about a dozen years ago, but which, for reasons unknown to us, was given up. We think it was in 1873 that the last Yale-Harvard freshmen race was rowed. The question that troubles the Harvard freshmen now, whether or not to row with Yale, is a difficult one to decide. To Yale the proposed race offers very evident advantages, while to Harvard it offers extra work and probably extra expense, without any great benefit that we can see. Perhaps the only argument that Harvard...
...FRESHMAN GLASS OF HARVARD: - The undergraduate freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the undergraduate freshman class of Harvard to a two-mile straight-away, eight-oared shell race, to occur at a time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...April 6, the Yale freshmen voted to challenge Harvard to a boat race. Yale, '89 is said to have a remarkable good crew...
...thanks of the college are due to the class for inaugurating a custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...