Word: london
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time since we have been connected with this paper, the pleasant task devolves upon us of expressing our thanks to the Crew and the Nine for the double victories they have won for the honor of Fair Harvard. We felt confident our Crew would win a victory at New London, but such a victory was considered hardly within the range of possibility. Complaints are made that the race was not close enough to be exciting, and that it is a pity Yale did not have a stronger crew. The race, to be sure, afforded little excitement to the average looker...
Early on the morning of June 28 crowds from all parts of the country began to pour into New London. They came in yachts, ferry-boats, excursion steamers, wherries, cat-boats, and steam-launches; they came in railroad trains and carryalls; they came on foot and on horseback. Even the casual observer must have perceived that it was a great day for Connecticut and New London...
Harvard's time in the New London race (20 min. 44 8/5 sec.) is the best time made in the four University regattas with eight-oared shells. It would probably have been several seconds better if our crew had not caught their oars in the eelgrass near the start...
SUMMARY.New London, Conn. June 28, 1878. Third annual race of eight-oared University crews, four miles, straight away...
...hotel accommodations of New London are not large, some difficulty will probably be found in getting rooms, unless they are engaged some time beforehand. The Crocker House is the best hotel in town, and besides this there is the Pequot House, a summer hotel, about two miles down the river...