Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the junior crew must be at the gymnasium ready to row Monday, Jan. 7th, at 4 o'clock...
...senior crew will row at gymnasium at 4.15 today...
...arranged, and a mass meeting of the students was called to discuss the practicability of the proposed event. At this meeting it was urged that Harvard could in no way compete with Oxford as she was greatly surpassed in the number of students, as in England the art of rowing was learned in the colleges preparatory to the higher universities while the members of the Harvard crew must necessarily be men who had learned to row during their college course...
After much deliberation and discussion, it was at last decided to send a four-oared crew to meet Oxford. The crew sailed for Liverpool on July 10, and on their arrival were given quarters which proved to be well suited to their needs. The London rowing club immediately placed their boats and boat houses at the disposal of the Harvard men and treated them with great civility. The Harvard crew worked with great zeal to perfect themselves, for they saw clearly that they had a great undertaking on their hands, and that they were to row under great disadvantages...
...candidates for the junior crew must be at the gymnasium ready to row Monday, Jan. 7th, at 4 o'clock...