Word: springfield
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FOOTBALL convention was held at Springfield, last Saturday, and several amendments were added to the Rules...
...Columbia class races for the previous Saturday, and as the Freshmen of both colleges will be in training for those events, I see no reason why the proposed race between them might not be rowed about the close of May, either at New London or Springfield...
ONCE more we must protest against the exaggerated reports of student life at Harvard which find their way into the newspapers. Two articles have lately appeared, one in the Springfield Republican and one in the Boston Herald, which repeat the time-worn story of Harvard barbarity and excess. Such reports are eagerly seized upon by many persons in the community, and do the University irremediable harm. It is true that there are evils at Harvard, and it is also true that there are evils in the world outside. Such evils as we have here we had better face boldly; there...
...planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably produced dissatisfaction on the part of the crews and the spectators, or both, I have become thoroughly convinced that the only hope of permanently establishing the annual University race at New London upon a satisfactory basis lies in keeping...
...sentiment among the boating-men here is strongly in favor of rowing the leading American colleges before venturing across the water, and with this sentiment we heartily agree. Say what we may about our Springfield and New London victories, the fact is undisputable that Cornell remains the champion of American colleges. If we send a crew to England, they should go as representing not only the best rowing in Harvard, but the best rowing in American colleges. It is only fair, then, that we should row with the champion college crew, and, in case we are successful, with other colleges...