Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visit of the Columbia crew to England seems to have awakened quite a strong desire to have in America some such annual regatta of college oarsmen as that at Henley. Captain Bancroft has received the following letter on this subject from the Secretary of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
...Harvard was beaten by Cornell, both Freshman and University, in 1875 and 1876, and in the Fresh man match of 1878. But her present crew has never been beaten. They defeated Yale and Columbia in 1877, and Yale in 1878, and are acknowledged by all judges of rowing to be one of the best collegiate crews ever seen in America. The history of the crew is unparalleled in the annals of University oarsmen. Bancroft rowed in the Freshman crew of 1875, Bancroft and Jacobs in the University crew of 1876 and in the match with Yale; seven of the eight...
...cannot conceive why Harvard dawdles with the demands of Columbia and Cornell to be admitted to the annual race on the Thames. Cornell is a polytechnic and industrial school, with no more claims to 'university' than the Troy or Boston Institute, or the one at Hoboken. . . . If we are to pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having...
...Courant complains that some of the foot-ball team "are studiously careless about their diet, keep unseasonable hours, and indulge themselves." To judge from the boating editorial and the letter from a graduate, there seems to be a feeling of dissatisfaction at our willingness to row Cornell and Columbia. We make the following extracts from the letter...
This indignation would be more in place if Harvard had any intention of rowing every year with Cornell and Columbia. This she has not at present, but there are circumstances which make it desirable that we should row them this year. Harvard has no desire to do anything to interfere with the annual race with Yale...