Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Freshman class on Tuesday evening it was voted to send a letter to the Yale Freshmen looking to a race next summer. In case an unfavorable answer is received from New Haven, a challenge will be sent to Columbia...
...purpose. The position of the two colleges is this: if Oxford accepts Harvard's challenge, we must go abroad and row her, and we must go entirely without reference to winning or losing our race or races in this country. With Yale we must row in any case; with Columbia and Cornell probably. Suppose that Yale, Columbia, and Cornell were all to beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means...
...time must be content with a seat under the gallery. But when Harvard, with victorious self-assurance, steps one side to tread on our corns and tread on our noses as it were, . . . . we propose to stop it." This indignation is caused by our negotiations with Cornell and Columbia, and by something that has been said in the Boston Herald about Mr. Peabody's rowing on our crew. We are not aware that the Herald is the official organ of the H. U. B. C., although the Yale graduate seems to consider it as such. Perhaps it is just...
...Columbia Boat Club - The following gentlemen have been elected officers of this club for the ensuing year: President, J. T. Goodwin; Vice-President, Cyrus Edson; Secretary, G. P. Erhard; Captain, C. Eldredge; Directors, R. C. Cornell, F. Rees, Holbrook, and Bangs...
...refusing to row Cornell in eight-oars, she shows the same lack of courage. If this gentleman really believes what he has written, he must have an unlimited faculty for swallowing utter nonsense and twaddle of the rankest description. It is all very well for Cornell and Columbia to accuse Yale and Harvard of cowardice, and if it affords them innocent amusement, it assuredly has no effect upon us. All their talk will not make Harvard and Yale feel anything but that a race with Cornell and Columbia is a very secondary matter, and that their own annual race...