Word: great
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fears are entertained by persons interested in the success of the college races offered by this organization that a very meagre entry will reward their generous efforts. It will be a great pity if this should be the case, and will prove that outside of Yale and Harvard, American colleges care little for aquatic sports. We sincerely hope that the aforesaid fears may prove groundless...
...programme was published, - a tug-of-war between picked teams from the crew of the steamer City of Chester, of the Inman Line, and a chase by the Columbia College Hare and Hounds Club in full uniform. The four-mile walk (go as you please) promises to be the great event of the occasion. The entries from Columbia have been very large...
There will be thirty tickets offered at five dollars apiece, entitling the holder to use the repaired boats for the spring season. Should more than thirty be required, the extra tickets will be six dollars apiece. The increase of price is necessitated by the great expense at which the Committee will be to prepare boats for so many...
...Committee will do all in its power to make the rowing agreeable, and trusts that the great improvement in accommodations will attract many...
...come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which...