Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seats were in the front row, at which he seemed taken a little aback; but he was soon put at his ease by our making him give the story of the Medea at length. He had studied it up, he said, in order to get the full benefit of the play. What a relaxation it would have been to him! But other things were in store...
...that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other things subservient to that wish. Any one who studies Harvard's action in this affair will see the existence of a real desire to row Columbia. Our challenge has certainly received careful attention; and the only question which prevents its immediate acceptance is a natural one of expedience. Columbia wants to row some college; and, for all reasons, Harvard is the most desirable. No false ideas of dignity should present themselves to cause unnecessary trouble...
Yale's challenge being disposed of, Columbia's was taken up. The President said that the acceptance of this challenge might fairly be expected to establish a precedent which would cause Harvard much annoyance. Yale was the college with which we wanted to row; and in boating matters, all else should be made subservient to the Yale race. For this race, however, that with Columbia was found to be an excellent preparation, and as such, was very desirable for Harvard. The question was one to be carefully considered; and the President would be glad to have it generally discussed...
Other speakers thought that Harvard had withdrawn from the Association to row with Yale alone, and that entering into races with any other college tended to interfere with the Yale race. They thought that so long as the Columbia race was subservient to that with Yale, it was desirable for us to enter it; but that we could be by no means sure of keeping it thus subservient. If we could accept the Columbia challenge for this year, and fix the race for a few days before the Yale race, without in any way binding ourselves to row Columbia next...
...Committee, who promise to arrive at a decision as quickly as possible. They will have to answer three questions: Can we expect to always so fix the time and place of the Columbia race as to make it subservient to the Yale race? If not, do we care to row Columbia every year any way? If not, are we in any way bound to row them another year by accepting their challenge this year...