Word: inter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Quos inter Augustus recumbens...
...Freshman race held the day before the University race would seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the latter, there is room for much debate. One thing is certain, however, that the accommodations for man and beast at New London are entirely insufficient on such an occasion as an inter-University race, and that strenuous efforts should be made to prevent a repetition of the famine that raged there the 28th of last June...
Oxford and Cambridge. - The Inter-University match will be rowed this year over the usual course on April 5th. The latest news reports Cambridge as doing exceedingly well, and, according to the English papers, the race will be by no means such a gift for Oxford as it once appeared...
...impossible to keep a University crew in training up to August 1. The text of the letter will be found in another column. The reasons given for declining the proposal are that the Oxford term ends early in June, that the 'Varsity men do not keep together after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep in trim through the summer. Oxford is not confident of beating Cambridge, as six of last year's crew have left the boat, and in case of her defeat she fears...
...Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity Race in February and March, and besides many would be utterly prevented from rowing, so the crew would be in reality a different and not a representative one. Again, supposing Oxford were beaten by Cambridge in the spring, it would be very unsatisfactory for Harvard to have a match fixed...