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...freshmen left Boston at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and on arrival at New London at 4 o'clock were driven up to their quarters at Capt. Molthrop's, half a mile below the university house. Their baggage was sent up in the launch. Mr. Keyes came down on the same train with the freshmen and W. Alexander, L. S., with the 'varsity. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Storrow are expected down soon. This morning work will commence in earnest. Both the 'varsity and freshmen will row at 10 o'clock and again...
...practising daily under the coaching of W. Brooks, '87. They will probably go to New London on the afternoon of June 17, if the class show sufficient loyalty and subscribe enough, and until June 25, the day of the race, they will take up their quarters at Capt. Molthrop's, four miles from New London, on the Thames River...
...which the crew had slaved and denied themselves for nearly nine long months! There are three very good illustrations in the book, taken from photographs. The first represents the '89 crew on the water; the second, the crew waiting for supper in the little lounging cabin before Captain Molthrop's house; and the third, the Yale-Columbia-Harvard race, taken just before Yale sank. The credit for this charming souvenir of a battle well fought and gloriously won, is due to Mr. E. C. Pfeiffer, '89, a "Port Oar," as he modestly terms himself. We desire to make our acknowledgments...
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