Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first regatta of the Canoe Club, this forenoon, promises to present some closely contested paddling races...
...Weld's schooner yacht "Gitana," having several Harvard graduates aboard, won a $1600 prize at the Clyde international sailing regatta...
...when the class races were instituted, each crew chose its own color, and the famous class of '56 chose magenta. About this time the College Union Regatta took place at Worcester ; and as magenta was the prevailing color there, those of the university crew who had not brought along their own colors, could procure nothing but magenta. They, however, caused their color to be put down on the program as "red." The color was therefore easily confounded with the college crimson from newspaper accounts of the races. A full meeting of the undergraduates was held May 6th, 1875, when crimson...
Wesleyan has decided to send a crew to the inter-collegiate regatta, at Saratoga, July...
...together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which rowed in the 1873 college regatta, Yale was probably physically weaker than any other. Notwithstanding that fact, however, we easily won the race with an average of 32 to the minute, while the others averaged from...