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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard has grit and enterprise. She has athletic bodies as well as vigorous brains, and Boston has money enough to back her favorite boys and give them every assistance needed. Let Captain Keyes go ahead and begin to train his crew at once, let him pick his men for coolness and endurance, and then let him say what he wants in order to make a winning crew, and the people will see to it that every aid shall be furnished...
...When Harvard challenged us last year, and later on invited us to go to America, all our men had gone off home or to different places, and it would have been impossible to get them together. So we did not accept, but while we were training for the race on the Thames with Oxford, I met ex-President Brandagee of the Harvard club, and he again extended the invitation. I spoke to our captain, but nothing was done, because we were so busy. After the race the matter was talked over, and I wrote privately to Mr. Coolidge...
...once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would undoubtedly be enormous numbers of people at the race, and the railroads and hotels ought to be quite...
...Well, we would have to attend the Harvard regattas, which are in the last week in June and first part of July. So it would take us until September to get ready to go to the other side, and get into proper condition for the race...
...What men would go with...