Word: racing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with some surprise that we read an item in a Columbia paper, stating that the '87 crew of that college has not as yet been presented with the stand of colors won in the freshman race from our own '87 crew, last spring. To be sure, we cannot deprive Columbia of the freshman championship which she won so fairly at New London, but Columbia naturally desires to have in her possession the trophy which is to commemorate her triumph. We would call the attention of the proper authorities to this failure to fulfil the obligations of the '87 crew...
Capt. Woodman has received an answer to his letter, challenging the Columbia Freshman Crew to a two mile straight away race at New London. The challenge has been accepted, and the time for the race will be determined upon in the future...
...whole hubbub about "race distinction" no more enters into this question than it does into an enquiry as to the cause of either of these colored gentlemen not being a member of a particular society or club in college...
...enter upon the homestretch of the mid-year race : let it be hoped that nobody will be found distanced...
...Columbia Spectator remarks that '87 has not yet received her flags from Harvard, and adds that '85 did not get hers until nearly two years after the race...