Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regard to the spring races. It was voted that negotiations be opened at once with the Union Boat-Club with a view of having a combination regatta on Charles River, to include the amateur rowing-associations of Boston and vicinity, this regatta to take place at least one week before the annual examinations, and to be open to sixes and fours. The Harvard four is to be taken from the second eight of the University, the six from the club sixes, after the spring race. The Union four has already a well-won reputation, and will make a very hard...
...that the officers of the clubs have taken this manly position, the least the members can do is to give them their hearty support. The floats will probably be down before the end of this week, and the sixes ought to begin at once. It is from these four crews that the best six men will be chosen to represent Harvard in the combination regatta...
...Last week the Freshman class held a meeting for the purpose of deciding whether it should row Cornell or not. From the very outset it was evident that there was not a little opposition to the project, and when the final ballot was taken, it was ascertained that about two thirds of the men present favored the plan of rowing Cornell, and one third opposed...
...most important events of the week is the decision of the boat-club officers and the executive committee of the University in regard to the management of the spring races. We note with pleasure that they have determined to adhere rigorously to their part of the bargain with Mr. Blakey. In another column will be found an account of the meeting and the programme of the approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance...
...Advocate, last spring, gave us news of the opening week of the Turco-Russian War, and the Yale News now gives us a summary of events in one of the last weeks, condensed into ten lines, and closing with this comment: "Gloomy prospect for the Paris Exposition and European tourists...