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...Thursday, June 30th. The course for the two-mile races at New London is the last half of the four-mile course-that is to say, the stretch between the Navy Yard and the finish flag opposite Winthrop's Point. The weather was beautiful and the water was comparatively smooth. The Columbia men were rather smaller than the Harvard Freshmen, and it was generally supposed that the latter would win easily...
...long distance from New York. and the fatiguing journey, the change of diet and surroundings, and above all the abominable Croton water will put the best men out of condition. Cornell suffers from this cause far more than Harvard. Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, which college were the only ones to win prizes this year...
Yale, '90, has a plucky, hard-working eight, but they do not row in good form nor get through the water fast...
...short row, and as they left the float the Columbia University crew passed down the river on the other side evidently taking a time row. The crew went off easily, rowing slow and long. A few minutes later the Freshmen followed in their boat and felt the water of the Thames for the first time. It was just at sunset and the wind had died down, so that the water was in excellent condition...
...water in Fresh Pond is said to be very low for the season. It is nine feet below high water mark...