Word: saratoga
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BRANDEGEE, '81, went to Ithaca during the late recess to secure a settlement with the Cornell Freshmen in regard to the place for the Freshman race; but Cornell refuses to row at any place but Saratoga...
...prospects of either race with Cornell seem very poor. The University challenge, though sent three weeks ago, has not been answered, and the Freshmen do not seem likely to come to a decision as to the place where they are to row, Cornell being as strongly in favor of Saratoga as we are in favor of New London. The latter course is undoubtedly the better for us, and probably the cheaper for both parties, so that we should be glad if Cornell could be brought to see its advantages; but if she persists in favoring Saratoga, we shall certainly...
CORNELL has written to Captain North that she desires to row at Saratoga...
...criticising here the action of the University Boat-Club in challenging Cornell, but simply the Era's manner of receiving the challenge. Cornell has not yet recovered from the evil effects of the management of her papers during the last years of the Intercollegiate races at Saratoga, and now seems to be relapsing. To charge a sister college with mean subterfuges and "sporting dodges" argues a very low sort of spirit indeed, and we hope to see no more of such criticisms. It does not speak very well for the Editors of the Era that they should so misinterpret...
Yale vs. Harvard, Saratoga, July...