Word: quinsigamond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success. Many prominent graduates were present, among them were Hon. Henry E. Howland, Prof. Richards, Gen. George Peabody Wetmore, Buchanan Winthrop, Frederic W. Stevens, Sidney E. Morse, and George A. Adee. Following were some of the toasts: "Athletics at Yale," responded to by Prof. E. L. Richards, '60; "From Quinsigamond to the Thames," responded to by W. C. Gulliver, '70; "Graduate Interest in Boating," responded to by Anthony Higgins, '61; "The Girls in Blue," responded to by Isaac H. Bromley, '55: "The Last Half Mile," responded to by Almet F. Jenks, '75; "The Sons of Yale," responded...
...Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Columbia, Cornell, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Brown has decided to have its annual regatta on the 4th of July next. The race will be rowed on either Lake Quinsigamond, George or Saratoga. At a recent meeting held in New York, Pennsylvania and Cornell voted in favor of racing in eight-oared shells instead of the four-oars previously used. The association decided to have an eight-oared race if any two colleges should send eight-oars; this race to occur a week after the regular race. A single scull race will also...
...origin of college cheers may be traced to the boating contests of twenty-five years ago on Lake Quinsigamond between Harvard and Yale in the old fashioned sixes. The 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! was then first heard; that of Harvard rolled out with a full strong sound, while that of Yale was given sharply and defiantly. Although both cheers look the same in print, the similarity is more apparent than real. Anyone who has ever been present at an athletic contest between these rival Universities will have readily observed the difference between the cheers. In the Town and Gown affrays, which...
From 1864 to 1870 the races were all rowed in six-oared shells. The course then used was at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, which was one and a half miles up the lake and return. Of these seven races Harvard won five, - Yale being victorious in the first two. The races at that time were usually rather unevenly contested, - that of 1876, for instance, being won by Harvard by a minute and twelve seconds...
Bowdoin and Cornell are still quarrelling about their boat race at Quinsigamond last summer...