Word: classed
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Varsity boat if they have the better chance which a longer rest will give them to recuperate from their training and to grow, as most rowing men do in their first summer vacation. As for their not having rowed in a shell except for two weeks before the class races, if it were an understood thing that the class races were intended to prepare the Freshman oar for the 'Varsity, with such advice as the rowing authorities should not hesitate to give, the Freshman shell could be in use, in a year of average mildness, at least six weeks before...
...upper classes would not care so much to prepare for an outside race as for a class race, for if they did, they would have upper class outside races; and therefore if Freshmen care more for an outside race, they only do so because they are unused to College ways, and do not understand the full value of class racing...
...author of the letter to the Advocate does not answer his question in objection No. 2, - "Did '83 gain more renown by winning the class race than by their victory over Columbia?" If an '83 man were to answer, he might say, "No, we did not;" but the spectators of any actions are the ones to judge in which most renown was gained, and the general opinion among upper class men is that '83 gained most by winning the class races. If the question were to be asked of men outside of Harvard, they would agree with '83, as they...