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Dates: during 1870-1879
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YALE has had an enthusiastic boating meeting, and has voted to challenge Harvard at once. She has twenty men already in training, and expects to have a coach recommended by Cook. The men will begin dieting this fall, and will remain on the water as long as possible. They have two pair-oared boats for coaching purposes...
...Crew and the Nine have added two more to the long list of Harvard's victories. At New London the former gave a pretty exhibition of their stroke, in a so-called race with Yale; at Providence the latter played and won one of the most creditable contests on record. The remarkable manner in which, by steadiness and pluck, Harvard won the last of the games for the championship, is too well known to need further comment; it is not to our past achievements, but to our future athletic interests that we direct our attention at the beginning of another...
...particular we would urge the necessity of immediate and energetic action. Our success in the past three races must not be taken as a criterion of success in the future. We have probably lost all but one of our last year's crew, and men who have been long associated with our boating interests are now no longer connected with the University. We have plenty of good raw material; but Yale's experience has testified that the moulding of raw material into an efficient crew is no easy task. Such a task is ours this year. Captain Trimble occupies...
...college championship' may be taken for what it is worth, as long as the hoary Ernst and Tyng beat us! Harvard could not have done...
...dumb art thou, although weak men have long...