Word: finished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judges at finish-For Columbia, H. Hunnewell: for Harvard, D. Brereton...
...time fixed for the race was 6.30 on 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...
...boats neared the finish they were greeted by the usual New London concert, which at times sounds most pleasantly, and at others most disagreeably. This time, although the volume of noise was greater, the general effect produced was hardly equal to that rendered at the time of the Columbia race...
Yale, still in the lead, swept on to the finish, through the long line of yachts and row boats, and crossed the line in 22 m. 56 s., Harvard following...
...Judge at finish for Yale, John Sheffield; for Harvard, Robert P. Perkins...