Word: yales
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...YALE GRADUATE OF '69.WASHINGTON SQUARE...
...Though the weather was perfect; though the arrangements were unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet been given by a Harvard-Yale race on the Thames, - the event was a thing of profound indifference to the public. "Absolutely nobody" went to see it. Not two dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than...
...transportation interest" supplies this basis at New London, the "hotel interest" supplies it at Saratoga; and there are absolutely no other places in America where either interest is strong enough to find any pecuniary advantage in guaranteeing proper management for such an exceedingly costly affair as the annual Harvard-Yale race in its present form. The keeping of a clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press...
...London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident the annual Harvard-Yale race...
...sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen observation trains. Easily as one may abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that the unanimity and unreservedness...