Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member of the Freshman Class, School of Arts, that are candidates for the freshman crew which is to row against the Harvard freshmen at New London next spring have begun training on the Harlem river. They go out daily in barges, and are being coached by C. K. Beekman, '89. The freshmen in the School of Mines are unable to begin training until the gymnasium practice commences in December. Charles R. Burke has been elected temporary captain of the crew. The candidates from the School of Arts are A. G. Norrie, R. S. Palmer, H. E. Tuttle, P. E. Johnson...
None of the rowing men have yet made their appearance on the river...
...conditions, they were wonderfully fine. The river was very calm, and whatever wind there was blew directly down the course. The tide, too, had turned, and everything seemed favorable for fast time, although it was hardly thought the record would be beaten. Harvard used her new English boat, about which so much has been said. Columbia rowed in a Waters shell...
...boats were off. The start was very even, Harvard having a slight advantage. Before the quarter mile was reached, however, Columbia had caught up with her rivals, and urged on by the frantic cheers of their supporters on land and water, the two boats flew down the river. At this point, Harvard was rowing 35 and Columbia 38 strokes to the minute...
...word both boats got off very evenly, Yale having a slight advantage. At the quarter Yale was still a little ahead, pulling thirty-seven strokes to the minute, Harvard following with thirty-five. At about this point the race was one of the prettiest ever seen on the river. The men in both eights were pulling beautifully, and the outcome was still decidedly unsettle. Yale passed the mile in 5 m. 20 s., with Harvard three seconds behind. In a short time the boats would reach the eel-grass where Yale hoped to row away from Harvard, as Harvard...