Word: england
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Resolved, That the interests of the reading public of the United States demand a treaty of international copyright with England. Yes, Wood, Kelly, Keyes. No, Thorp, Brown, Knapp...
...losers would be unsatisfactory to Harvard. It may seem to some unfair that we should be deprived of an opportunity to retrieve our loss in '69; but when we consider the circumstances in which Oxford is placed and the difficulties attending all attempts to prolong the boating season in England, we can understand and appreciate her action...
...hope that Oxford's refusal to row us will not altogether break up our crew, for, 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...
...hardly a satisfactory one, being out of course in that but four-oared boats represented the two clubs. The wish now is to enter an eight-oar with coxswain against your full University boat. Since there is no possible arrangement by which a crew from Harvard can be in England before the latter part of July, it is clear that in the event of any challenge, Oxford in using her right to name time and place must appoint no date earlier than the 1st of August. It is a thorough appreciation of all the discomforts and annoyances so late...
...kind letter of November 16, but I felt it was a matter which could not be settled off-hand. Although I am sure that I can assert, on behalf of the University, that they are most ready to acknowledge the spirit of Harvard in wishing to come over to England to row a match, and feel most flattered by it, yet at the same time the difficulties of getting together anything like a representative eight to row in August are very great, as I am sure you would feel if you were in my position. The Oxford summer term ends...