Word: winning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...although we know that the only condition on which some of our men promised to row was that the crew should be sent to England, yet there are enough of the old men left to form a nucleus on which to build an eight that could without doubt win another victory for us at New London. Now that we have lost the championship in football, and the prospects in base-ball are anything but encouraging, it devolves upon the crew all the more to sustain the honor and reputation of Harvard, and as all the arrangements for a race with...
ATHLETICS.Amateur Ten-Miles. - An amateur championship belt for this distance has been offered by the Boston Y. M. C. A. Athletic Club, and is open to New England amateurs only. If there were only some man in this University who would make the attempt to win this belt for Harvard, we are sure he would be encouraged by all in college who are interested in athletics. The feeling that it is not "quite the thing" to enter amateur races never influences men who are anxious to compare their strength with that of men other than those they have beaten...
...these two regattas for all ambitious colleges to send crews and witch the world with feats of noble oarsmanship, but we are thankful the races are held so late in the year. Were it otherwise, a crew from the Michigan University, or the Hampton College of Virginia, might win one of these races and insist upon our rowing them before setting sail for England...
...several American crews go over, they can race there just as well as here, in the various heats. If American crews win different heats, they will be matched against each other in the final. If the crew from this side be beaten, then we all thank fortune that it was not a champion crew. On the other hand, if the American crew win, then again we say it is good it was not the champion crew, for the results lead to the inference that the champion could have done even better...
...Harvard's claims to oarsmanship and independence, he proceeds to open the floodgate of his scorn on Yale, and fairly inundates that hapless college with charges of cowardice, etc., etc. He says Yale found in 1875 that it was folly for her to row with Cornell, and expect to win honors, and so backed out of the R. A. A. C. and now, in refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense and twaddle...