Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Columbia, Cornell, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Brown has decided to have its annual regatta on the 4th of July next. The race will be rowed on either Lake Quinsigamond, George or Saratoga. At a recent meeting held in New York, Pennsylvania and Cornell voted in favor of racing in eight-oared shells instead of the four-oars previously used. The association decided to have an eight-oared race if any two colleges should send eight-oars; this race to occur a week after the regular race. A single scull race will also...
...admittance every year. If we permit Yale to enter this race, the time does not seem to be very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga in '74, '75 and '76. All this tends to lessen the importance and interest in the Harvard Yale 'varsity races which have hitherto held, and should always hold, first place among the boat-races of this country...
Columbia will probably enter a crew at the next Intercollegiate Regatta...
...fall regatta held at Lake Saltonstall last Wednesday, the sophomore crew beat the juniors by 21 seconds. In the freshman race between '90 and '89 S., '90 won by about three lengths...
...fall regatta of the Yale Boat Club took place yesterday at Lake Saltonstall...