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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost every one knows, the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. have agreed to run, on the day of the race, a train of platform cars, furnished with seats arranged in tiers, from the start to the finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open...
...crew leaves here the 22d, the day after Class Day, and will go immediately to their quarters, which are four miles from New London, and on the opposite bank of the river, very near the start. A boat-house has been built for them in a little cove just before their quarters, and they will row their boat up to it from the town the day of their arrival. The Yale quarters are a mile farther up the river, at Gale's Ferry...
Buoys have already been set out along the course at an eighth of a mile apart; and, as the straight course necessitates rowing over a shoal for a quarter or third of a mile at the start, a second course has also been made with a slight bend in it which follows the channel of the river...
...rage of collections is the rage of the age," said my companion, as we were walking home from a lecture on the phonograph; "you've never collected anything, why don't you now start a collection of autophones...
That Amateur Definition. - If the English adhere strictly to their new definition of an amateur, not one of our crews - not even the Columbia Four - will be qualified to start in an amateur race on the other side of the water. By the rule no one is an amateur who has "worked in or about boats for hire," etc., etc. Now one Smith, of the Emerald Boat Club, we think, did once upon a time, for hire, catch some fish for a gentleman from a boat. Hence, he is no longer an amateur by the rule. Now almost...