Word: capts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About a quarter of a mile below the 'varsity are the freshman quarters. They are really very pleasantly situated in a little white farm house, which, like the 'varsity quarters, has a good view of the river. The owner of the house, Capt. Mahlthrop, is a jolly old soul, and makes everything very pleasant for the crew. The pictures which the genial captain has in his various rooms, are of an unusually uninteresting character, and it has become a custom of freshman crews upon taking possession, to turn them face inwards towards the walls. There are four sleeping rooms...
This afternoon your correspondent made a little visit to the Columbia quarters, where he was very courteously received by Capt. Meikleham. The house where the men live is a large white building, with several ells, standing about half a mile beyond the Harvard quarters up the river. The 'varsity and part of the freshman crew occupy the house together, while the rest of the '89 men live in a little cottage directly across the the way. As you enter the house, across the little sheltered piazza, you come first into the parlor, or rather lounging room, where the men spend...
...long pulls every day, and while away the intervening time in playing ball, rifle shooting, etc. An account of the crew appeared to-day in a New London paper, which is rather amusing. It has as a heading "Giants get into gear;" and among other things it speaks of Capt. Mumford as being a "veritable Samson," and of Burgess and Yocum as being the "big fellers" of the eight. Accounts like this are very common among the daily papers here, and are read with great pleasure by the men at the quarters...
...interest the freshmen, too, to know that "they are said to be an excellent crew, with several strong oars, who pull a stroke similar to that of the 'varsity." The freshman quarters are being made ready for the crew's arrival next Wednesday, and Capt. Mahl throp has spent several days in painting the little summer house a deep crimson...
...Mumford, (Capt...