Harvard's crew wore handlebar mustaches (false) and foolish grins. Radcliffe's crew, in white shirts and red ribbons, looked deadly serious. The race was to be a half-mile on the Charles River, down stream.
As the two crews got off the mark last week, a brassièred and bewigged M.I.T. crew, which had been hiding upstream, joined the fun long enough to come skimming between them. Then Harvard pulled off to a one-length lead, and coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the...
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