Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University crew has been expecting to start for New London on Friday of next week. The race will be rowed on Friday, June 28th. The crew, therefore, will have just two weeks at New London if it leaves Cambridge on the 14th...
...almost always happened that university crews have shown vastly greater improvement during the time they are at New London than during a similar length of time at any other period of the year. Though the rowing of the crew is still somewhat ragged, they have shown great improvement during the last two weeks, and it is thought by the captain and the coach that if the crew can continue to make the same ratio of improvement during the next ten days at Cambridge, and then can have two clear weeks at New London, where they will be entirely free from...
...order to get two weeks at New London the crew will need four hundred dollars, more than the treasurer now has. The crew is determined to keep out of debt if possible. They have denied themselves everything except what they believed to be absolutely essential to success. The boat club for the first time has not provided any member of the crew during the entire year, with a cap, a sweater, a pair of tights, a blazer, or any single article of clothing. The captain and treasurer believe that there has not been a dollar given to the crew this...
...already said, in order not to diminish very materially the chance which the crew has of winning the race, the crew must go to New London next week. To do this it has got to have four hundred dollars. Is there enough patriotism left in the college to raise this...
There is still seven hundred dollars of subscriptions which are unpaid. If the gentlemen who subscribed this would keep their promises, the crew would not now be in danger of reaching New London a day or two before the race...