Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta Columbiana, the representative the following appeal for a combination Harvard-Yale-Columbia race each spring: "In one of our last year's issues we seriously mooted the advisability of merging the Harvard-Columbia and Yale-Harvard boat-races into one grand combination of Harvard-Yale-Columbia. In the issue to which we refer, we further suggested that the representative papers of the respective Colleges ventilate their opinions upon the advisability of such a measure. The number, however, in which this editorial appeared was published in August, and in all probability our Harvard and Yale exchanges failed to observe...
...Acta Columbiana proposes that Harvard's two intercollegiate boat races be merged into a Yale-Columbia-Harvard race. We desire to see cordial relations established between Columbia and Harvard, and, if weighty reasons did not interfere, would gladly oblige Columbia by urging a favorable consideration of her proposal. We admit the force of the reasons urged by the Columbiana in favor of the project, that great interest in the event would be aroused and that there would be greater honor for the victors of this race. Nevertheless, there are other considerations which must not be over-looked...
...Yale had expressed her desire to row Harvard alone, "because she had no rivalry with the other colleges, and no great desire to defeat them." We think that Yale still maintains the same attitude. Harvard withdrew from the association, because she thought that a fair race could not be rowed under its supervision and did not wish again to endanger her chances by a foul. Harvard then agreed to row Yale at New London a straightaway race in eights; and later, to row with Columbia under the same conditions. Now, if the two races are merged into one, another intercollegiate...
...training school alumni, to the imposing array of class, society, and other "spread cards" which now confronts him. But with each card goes some story of jollity: it was at that dinner that Jack sung his new song: this card commemorates a dinner in honor of a Yale race won by our glorious crew: and so on, through the list...
...THURSDAY.English VI. (Oral Discussion). Dr. Royce. Sever 11, 2 P. M. Question: 1s the position of the Negro Race in this country a probable source of future danger to our social and political institutions, either in the South or elsewhere...