Word: springfield
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race to be rowed at the same time and place as the University, and, under ordinary circumstances, would have been perfectly satisfactory to our men. This year, however, they have agreed to row in the Freshman race at Saratoga, and it is believed that to row with Yale at Springfield would seriously lessen their chances of victory in the other race, and in their reply to Yale's challenge, they did not undertake to row the race, unless they could have the usual privilege of the challenged party, i. e. to name the time and place...
...Yale Association." And further: "We certainly are unable to change our former views in regard to the petty superciliousness which characterizes the dealings of Harvard in boating matters." Of course it is natural to expect that if our men row Yale at all, they will do it at Springfield, where the University race comes off; and we hope that it will be possible to make such arrangements...
YALE agrees that we shall name the time and place of the regatta. The time will be June 30, and the place, probably, Springfield...
...held on Tuesday last, and Mr. Wetmore, '75, and Mr. Otis, L. S. S., were appointed to meet the delegates of Yale at New London, on December 15, to arrange the preliminaries of the Yale and Harvard race. The delegates were instructed to vote for Springfield as the place, and the latter part of June as the time for the regatta. No further instructions were given the delegates, but the Executive Committee reserves to itself the power of vetoing any decisions which meet with disapproval...
...this volume of the Crimson we expressed the opinion that Harvard could not honorably withdraw from the Rowing Association of American Colleges. We still think that at the time we had no cause to justify our leaving the Association, but the action of the convention which met at Springfield last week leaves us to choose now between two disagreeable alternatives. We must either submit to seeing questions of the greatest importance in regard to intercollegiate rowing decided according to the expense they involve, rather than the advantages or disadvantages they would cause; we must suffer the minority of the college...