Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Captain Bancroft said that there was therefore now no reason why we should not row Yale. He moved that Yale's challenge be accepted, and that the race be rowed at New London. This motion was carried unanimously. The date of the race will be decided later. It will probably be about the last Friday in June...
After all, pondered I, doesn't it pay to row, and, with a judicious expenditure of time, doesn't rowing help studying...
...visit about thirty fellows had come down; some to see the "Varsity" go out, and others to row. A few sixes and fours had put off, and were rowing down the river. These, with the few singles, suggested what a lively sight there might be if the fifty or sixty boats that are lying on the rests were on the river, and a few hundred more students of "the first University in the country" would think it a greater accomplishment to swing an oar than to roll a cigarette...
...regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order to secure a race with her, we would be willing to do everything and submit to everything that gentlemen could be expected to do or to submit to; but Yale has now entirely overstepped the bounds of propriety and decency, and so long as she occupies...
...Row swift thy boat to land...