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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crews on the water. Although the seniors and juniors both did a little rowing Tuesday, still yesterday marked the first appearance of all the crews together and may be regarded as the beginning of the boating season. The tide was dead low before the crews were ready to start, making the launching of the boats quite difficult; this with the coldness of the weather and sharpness of the wind shortened the rows somewhat and made the men quite willing to get back to a warm room. Both pair-oars were in constant demand, being used principally by the seniors...
...colleges comprising the association evidently expect that all the boats will be of the same length, for the crews are to start by their sterns and finish by their bows; as this is the simplest and easiest way of judging a race, this rule will probably remain in force until a change is rendered necessary by some college making an innovation similar to that made by Yale...
...Oxford-Cambridge boat race was rowed yesterday, Oxford winning by three lengths, a totally unexpected result, as Cambridge was the favorite in betting circles, odds of 7 to 2 being offered on her before the start. The Cambridge crew were fifty pounds heavier than Oxford, but the latter pulled in better form, rowing forty to the minute from start to finish. The race ended in a snow storm. This makes the record of victories 22 to 17 in favor of Oxford, and one "dead heat...
...Total Abstinence Society intend requesting Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, and General John L. Swift, deputy collector of Boston, to present addresses at Harvard. When Wendell Phillips was asked, he declared his willingness to speak, saying that when he was in college certain students attempted to start a similar society, but, since at that time he did not feel the same interest in the cause which he now does, he neglected to aid them. For this reason he felt as if he owed a debt which could only be repaid by helping as much as possible the present...
...recall the fact that the colleges or halls sprang into existence about the sixteenth century. Originally they were merely inns for the convenience of those who wished to economize, and could do so better by living in company. A few students, with a graduate of good standing, could start a college, that is, rent a house and make up a little community of their own Finally most of these dwindled away. A few of the larger ones, however, were endowed and a corporation was given them; so that, at the present time, there are about thirty colleges at Oxford...