Word: regatta
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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...
...with pleasure that I comply with your invitation to say something about the newly projected intercollegiate regatta under the auspices of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen; for my desire that this deserving experiment should be successfully carried through at Newark or Saratoga is second only to my desire that the annual University boat-race between the two old Colleges should be permanently established at New London, under a management that shall not be handicapped by the simultaneous presence upon the river of any other crews whatever. As it seems to me, on the one hand, that Harvard's support...
...same as that which was maintained by the R. A. A. C. during the last four years of its history. The races are to be rowed either at Newark or Saratoga, during the first week of July, and on the day preceding the regular annual regatta of the association, which regatta the college crews are also invited to enter, in case they wish to test their prowess against that of non-collegiate amateurs. It is 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...
...agree to row their proposed race in eight-oared boats. Whatever the result of the Harvard-Yale race of June 27, I am sure that Yale men generally would be pleased to have the Harvard crew continue in training a few days longer, enter the N. A. A. O. regatta against Cornell and Columbia, and bear off the laurels of the much-talked-about "championship." If it were also announced that half of the same Harvard eight would subsequently compete for the four-oared cup, the number of entries therefor would be increased. Princeton, for instance, would be almost certain...
...London is indeed no place for a long-drawn-out "regatta tournament," or series of races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds...