Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will be very difficult to replace. Many of the societies lose their most efficient officers and most energetic members, and the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will find several missing from their ranks. It is a source of great satisfaction, however, in this time of our success on the river, to know that the Captain of the 'Varsity will be with us this year, and will take his old thwart in the boat. To '82 we are looking with interest and expectancy. '82! The very figures warn us of our increasing baldness and our fast-falling gray hairs...
...would be inconsistent with the usual ordering of fate for one college to win all the victories that are to be won on land and river in one year. Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake...
...course at an eighth of a mile apart; and, as the straight course necessitates rowing over a shoal for a quarter or third of a mile at the start, a second course has also been made with a slight bend in it which follows the channel of the river...
...would certainly be a good plan if arrangements could be made by which the students should have certain cars reserved for themselves The only disadvantage of being on this train is, that for the greater part of the distance the boats will be on the opposite side of the river, although at the start and finish they are near the cars. Besides these different modes of seeing the race, there is a good carriage road on the left bank of the river (the railroad is on the right), and any enterprising person would find he could get a fine view...
...hotel accommodations of New London are not large, some difficulty will probably be found in getting rooms, unless they are engaged some time beforehand. The Crocker House is the best hotel in town, and besides this there is the Pequot House, a summer hotel, about two miles down the river...