Word: summers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...early part of the summer, and I was still a Freshman, in blissful ignorance of the result of the year's work...
...Gymnasium will be finished in March if the weather permits the workmen to get the roof on before the first heavy fall of snow. If not, the interior will not be finished until next summer...
...Summer repairs...
...though her present crew is by no means identical with the crew that won in 1876. On the other hand Harvard has good reason to believe that her crew of 1878 would make a good race with any college eight that can be got together and trained before next summer. It is the desire of our crew to row against Cornell and any other colleges that are willing to pull in eight-oars, and to beat them, if possible, before going to England. In fact, Captain Bancroft is in favor of making our race with Oxford conditional on our beating...
...earlier date and at the same time allow our men a fortnight's training on the Thames. It seems a great deal to ask of English crews that they should keep in practice four months after their annual regatta; but Oxford ought to consent to this sacrifice of the summer, for she has owed us a race ever since our memorable defeat in '69. That we have decided to row, if possible, the English Universities, is due on the one hand to the graduates, for without their pecuniary aid we could have done nothing; and to the Crew...