Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LONDON, June 21st.Last Saturday the Harvard 'varsity left Cambridge by the one o'clock train, and arrived in New London towards evening. At Groton, which is on the east side of the Thames River, just opposite New London, the crew left the train, and started for the quarters...
...University crew leaves to-day for New London. Its Columbia rivals are already on the Thames hard at work. That our crew will hold their position on the river of last year is ardently hoped for, and reasonably to be expected. The exhibition row of the crew yesterday was extremely gratifying to the large audience which thronged the boat-house to witness it. The crew showed great improvement in the style and finish of its stroke; if it has the same lasting power that it possessed a year ago, it should win both its races. Captain Mumford...
...years with Columbia. It was decided that the races should be rowed over a four mile straight-a-way course, in eight-oared shells, with coxswains; and this is how they have been rowed ever since. The course selected for this annual race was that on the Thames River, at New London, which has proved to be a most excellent one. Since 1876, the year after the association was given up, Harvard has won six and Yale four races. These have almost invariably been well contested, that of 1882 being especially fine, when Harvard beat Yale by scarcely three seconds...
...house during the course of an afternoon, but now it is a rarity to see a solitary person there who is not in some way connected with the crew. There is not a college in the country which offers better facilities for seeing the crew while practising upon the river than Harvard. At Columbia everything is different. There it takes fully an hour instead of ten minutes, to go to the boat house upon the Harlem, yet every afternoon a number of students are present to encourage the eight men who are to represent their college at New London...
...mile race was held on the Harlem River on Monday last, between the eight-oared crews of the U. of Penn., Columbia, and the Columbia freshmen. The U. of Penn. won in 5m. 23s., with the Columbia 'varsity lapping them. The freshmen lapped the latter all the way down the course and at the finish...