Word: race
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...boat race has been arranged to take place next spring between the crew of the United States Naval Academy and the second 'varsity crew of Cornell. It is proposed to hold the race May 15 at Annapolis...
...mass meeting in Sanders Theatre we shall have a good opportunity to make evident the unusual interest in the University crew which has grown strong in us since the coming of Mr. Lehmann, and to show the enthusiasm which the remarkably good work of the candidates in the trial race aroused. Not in the memory of any undergraduate has there been such general interest in the crews as there is now, and such a universal belief, throughout the student body, that the eight is in the best of hands and has unusually bright prospects of victory next spring...
Last night Mr. Lehmann gave a dinner at the Algonquin Club to the members of the two eights who rowed in the race last Saturday, including the coxswains. There were present also Mr. Francis Peabody, Mr. J. J. Storrow and Mr. G. S. Mumford, all of whom have been prominent in rowing circles while at Harvard as well as afterwards...
...Storrow made a very telling speech and in closing presented medals to the members of the two crews. The men who rowed in the winning boat received silver medals, on one side of which is the Harvard seal in full, while on the other side is inscribed "Trial Race" with a space left for the name, and then the date of the race, "Dec. 5." Bronze medals, otherwise similar to the silver ones, were presented to the other crew...
...Goodrich; 6, J. F. Perkins; 5, J. H. Perkins; 4, A A. Sprague; 3, S. Hollister; 2, C. Thomson; bow, E. A. Boardman. They rowed down river, about half a mile beyond the Harvard Bridge and back in the barge in which Captain Goodrich's crew rowed the race on Saturday. Mr. Lehmann coached as usual; with him in the launch were several graduates interested in rowing, among them Mr. Fay, bow of the '69 crew. The crew will continue rowing as long as the weather permits. Mr. Lehmann has made arrangements to return to England, December 16th...