Word: right
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spring term at Ithaca, to hold a meeting, and decide on our challenge for a University race; and the reply, which we regret to say is in the negative, is printed in this issue. Our challenge, which the Ithaca newspapers considered as highly impertinent, was understood in its right spirit by the members of the Cornell Navy, and it is only the peculiar conditions laid down in our letter, and the previous arrangements of the Cornell crew, that prevent them from rowing a race which would be of advantage to both colleges. A private letter, which the Secretary...
...would serve them right if they were n't encored at all, and then there would be so much more time for dancing...
...regret to learn that in the last inning of the Live Oak game Mr. Ernst stretched the short head of the biceps muscle in his right leg, and trust that the injury may not prove more than a temporary lameness...
...with the New Bedfords was played in Fall River on Tuesday, April 16, and resulted in Harvard's first defeat. Our Nine played a nearly perfect fielding game, but were unable to master Bradley's new delivery, his previous defeat teaching him that his old delivery was not the right kind to oppose to Harvard's batsmen. The game was well contested through eight innings; in the ninth two earned runs were made by the New Bedfords. The injury which Ernst received in the Live Oak game rendered him very lame, and had a natural effect on his pitching. Fessenden...
...will result in entirely debarring American rowers from the Henley regatta; the Watkins Glen regatta comes off so short a time before Henley that it will be next to impossible for the winning crews at Watkins to enter and start at Henley. Besides, this arrogant committee reserves the right of rejecting any entry! So that a crew on the eve of the race might find itself ruled out, and no reasons assigned. Truly English love of fair-play has been sadly overpraised...