Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rather amusing to notice the sincere way in which many of our smaller exchanges compliment the Advocate and Magenta on their cheerful resignation after Harvard's defeat in the Regatta, and applaud their "plucky" hopes for next year. We assure our kind sympathizers that boating is not quite dead here, and that just as likely as not there will be some kind of a Harvard crew next summer...
...Western Union Telegraph Company, and especially to Mr. Wood, superintendent of the 5th district, and to Mr. Denver, superintendent of office at Springfield, for their very valuable assistance, enabling us to construct and work our line along the course of the late College Regatta at Springfield...
...last Cornell Era is a bright and interesting paper. From it we should infer that their ardor is not at all dampened by their ill luck at Springfield. Boating at that college seems to be in an unusually vigorous condition. A regatta is to be held there on the 11th, for the Tom Hughes Cup and for an elegant and expensive cup offered by Mr. Cluck, '74, - an editor, we believe...
...strangers that the walls of that dull city contained awoke on the morning of July 19 and anxiously calculated the probabilities. The dull, threatening sky promised nothing better than discomfort to the male, and no possible display of finery to the female spectators of the Third Intercollegiate Regatta...
During the next day nearly all the visitors had gone, the city had again sunk into lethargy, and the last signs of the Regatta had passed away...