Word: came
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Like "t' other one," they quite came...
When, victors, they came...
...races set for Wednesday, July 15, came off promptly. The Freshman race was remarkable for the brilliant spurt of the Princeton men at the finish, which gave them the race over Yale. On the whole, we are inclined to support the action of our Freshmen in not entering for the race. The interest taken in, and the good resulting from it is not sufficient to justify the expense and trouble, which had much better be concentrated on the University crew. Our entry in the single-scull race, Mr. Devens, pulled a very good race, taking into account the time...
...great event of the week, the University race, after a double postponement, came off on the morning of Saturday, July 18. The result is satisfactory to none but the gallant sons of Columbia, and, even in their case, we are confident that the gentlemanly spirit of rivalry which is characteristic of them would have prompted them to prefer a fair trial of superiority with their two most formidable rivals to the walk-away race they had of it after the Yale-Harvard foul...
After this came a three-legged race, in which the participants were Messrs. Goodwin and H. L. Morse '74, Riggs '76, and Denton, L. S. S.; Rives and W. C. Sanger '74, H. R. Grant '74, and Ellis '75, Latham and Leeds '77. The race was won by Messrs. Latham and Leeds...