Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DURING the fortnight which has elapsed since the first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably...
...meeting of the Freshman Class on Wednesday evening last an acceptance was read from the Columbia Freshmen of the challenge to row an eight-orared, straightaway race with coxswains, time to be agreed upon hereafter. The Columbia Freshmen also accepted the suggestion of New London as a suitable place, and the race will, therefore, be rowed there. The President of the class was authorized to appoint a committee of three to arrange all matters pertaining to the race...
...LETTER appeared in last week's Advocate censuring the fact that the Freshmen had reconsidered their vote to challenge Cornell, and had ended in challenging Columbia, and that they had done it at the advice of the Executive Committee. That they did n't stand a sure chance of winning ought not to be any cause for not challenging, but there are other reasons. Cornell, taking into account the present relations between the colleges, might consider it a sort of apology for what she calls not fair play, but we have no apology to make, since the Executive Committee have...
...probable, also, that a fourth prize will be offered, in the college regatta, for six-oared boats rowed by class crews, for it is believed that such a race would have many advantages over one confined exclusively to Freshmen. The spring regattas which are always held at Yale and Columbia, generally at Cornell and Wesleyan, and often at Bowdoin, Brown, Princeton, Williams, and other colleges, consist largely of six-oared races between class crews; and the victors of these several occasions (perhaps Juniors at Yale, Sophomores at Cornell, and Freshmen at Wesleyan) might not improbably be tempted to try conclusions...
...Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce their intention to enter, there seems no reasonable doubt that Cornell would at once begin training an eight to meet them, and perhaps Columbia would do likewise; but the entrance of any fourth college is extremely improbable. In Harvard's absence I fear that Columbia and Cornell would not be disposed to compete; and in that case the only apparent chance of keeping the eight-oared prize on the programme would be in persuading...