Word: finished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about the method of starting cannot fail to commend it to every one. To start with the sterns of the shells even and to judge by the bows at the finish, would simply make our course about five feet shorter than Harvard's - we do not wonder that they objected. - [Record...
This arrangement is not opened to the objections, brought up during the numerous discussions, to starting the boats by their middle points. The flags will enable the the referee, and even the spectators to judge the position of the boats at the finish as well as when they finished by the bows. The agreement was not, therefore, so much a compromise as a decision perfectly satisfactory to both parties...
...starting line shall be moved down from the present starting line the distance of sixty (60) feet toward the finish line, and shall be at right angles to the central line of buoys. Each boat shall be provided with a metal staff or rod eighteen (18) inches high, carrying a flag measuring nine (9) by five (5) inches, of the color of its university. Such rod shall be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance forward from the centre of said boat equal to half the length of the shorter...
Five days before the race a suitable referee's boat shall be provided and each university shall name two judges and a time-keeper, one judge to be located at the finish, the other with the time-keeper to accompany the referee. The appointment of the judges and time-keeper shall be reported to the referee...
...judges' boat at the finish shall be so placed that the referee can easily see the flags when they fall, and the falling of the respective flags shall indicate to the time-keepers that such boat has crossed the finish line...