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...last mile was one continuous spurt on Columbia's part to make up the lost distance, but though the effort was nobly sustained it was ineffectual, and our crew came over the line winner by a length, pulling 37 strokes to Columbia's 40. The time was. Harvard, 24m. 21s.; Columbia, 24m. 39s. The officials of the race were as follows: Referee, L. K. Hull, of Yale. Judges: For Columbia, Jasper Goodwin, G. C. Dempsey; for Harvard, R. C. Watson, A. Keith. Timekeepers, A. C. Cornell, A. T. French...
When the first quarter was reached, Columbia had a lead of nearly a third of a length, which was partly owing to the fact that our crew had caught two crabs in covering this distance. At this point Harvard was pulling 37 strokes to Columbia...
From the quarter to the half mile our boat gained gradually on its rival, and at the beginning of the second half mile was a length to the good. Both crews now settled down to steady work, and finished the first mile in nearly the same relative position as at the first mile. The second mile was rowed at about the same speed as the first by our crew, but the Columbia men quickened their stroke so that the third mile was begun with the boats almost...
...particularly broad vizor to protect their eyes from the glare of the sun. As the crew shoved off from the float the men on the platform, led by Mr. Sexton, hte treasurer of the boat club last year, gave nine hearty cheers. The eight rowed back and forth the length of the straight stretch of the river in front of the house at about thirty-three strokes to the minute. Then pausing near the coal wharf they stripped off their ferseys and prepared for a final spurt past the crowd of spectators. This time the men in the boat, urged...
...speaking thus at length on the subject of cheering, it is unnecessary to tell a Harvard audience that the uproarious scenes which have recently been enacted at New Haven, instead of being an honor to the nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support...