Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there should be one sole and simple 'event,' a University boat-race between representative crews of the only two colleges in America whose names have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited. In abandoning the unwieldy National Rowing Association, Yale and Harvard should abandon with it the whole 'tournament' theory. In place of a long-drawn 'week of athletic sports,' they should offer the public...
...withdrew. This leaves only six men, including the present captain, Mr. Scudder; and as two of these are entirely unpractised in rowing, and as there is no chance of procuring substitutes in case of an accident, the Captain thinks that an endeavor to send a good crew to the regatta would be useless and foolish...
YALE agrees that we shall name the time and place of the regatta. The time will be June 30, and the place, probably, Springfield...
...flurry caused in collegiate circles by the action of Harvard and Yale in seceding from the Rowing Association has now nearly subsided. Giving as reasons want of rivalry, unfair treatment, and general dissatisfaction, our two most influential colleges have withdrawn from the regatta; Yale's departure to be effected this year, and Harvard to appear but once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon...
...view of the next regatta, we would respectfully submit to the committee that Princeton is taking unfair measures for victory. Miracles, by the regatta rules, are strictly barred...