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Catain E. P. Smith, of the Columbia freshman crew, has recently sent a reply to the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race at New London. Captain Smith refuses to accept the challenge, but states his willingness to admit the Yale freshmen to the Harvard Columbia race, provided Harvard agree. As Harvard will in all probability refuse to agree to any such proposition, the Yale freshmen and the Columbia freshmen will not race this year...
DEAR SIR: The Yale freshman class hereby challenge the Columbia freshmen to a two-mile straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter. Yours respectfully...
DEAR SIR: The Columbia freshmen do hereby accept the challenge of the Harvard freshmen to an eight-oared two-mile straightaway race, to be rowed at New London next June, the date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter. Respectfully...
DEAR SIR:- The Harvard freshmen do hereby challenge the Columbia freshman class to an eight-oared two-mile straightaway race to be rowed at New London next June, date to be mutually agreed upon hereafter...
...formal one, will not for that reason be given for publication, but the conditions are as follows: That the race shall be rowed in eight-oared shells as soon after the contest with the Cambridge University crew as possible, and it shall be over the four-mile straightaway course on the Liffey River, near the banks of which Dublin is situated. Nothing up to the present time has been done by the Yale Navy in regard to the Cambridge race, and, of course, no challenges from other colleges can be considered until that is settled...