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While Yale had her quarters within a step from her boat-house, our Crew were obliged to walk a considerable distance, on a dusty road, and in the sun. This was very objectionable on a hot day, especially before, and after, a hard row on time. This, however, was slight as compared with other inconveniences that the men were obliged to undergo...
Leaving their comfortable rooms at Cambridge, six men had to sleep in two rooms of low ceiling, barely 14 feet square. Three men occupied two smaller rooms; and two men, who rowed on the Crew proper, each occupied garret-rooms, or rather closets, with scarcely space to move round. Added to all this, the mattresses furnished were worn-out truck taken from an old steamboat. There was no shade around the place, and the house becoming very warm during the day, it was midnight before it became sufficiently cool to allow one to get to sleep. It is safe...
These inconveniences and discomforts contributed in a great measure towards making most of the Crew haggard and worn by the time the day for the race came. The present captain of the Crew was unwilling to ask his men to undergo a year of hard and careful training, and then to go to New London in a physically fine condition, and impair their chances by quartering them in a house such as Harvard occupied in 1880. An earnest effort was made to get suitable quarters already built. This having failed, the matter was laid before the New London local committee...
...challenge was sent it was accompanied by a note calling attention to the fact that Harvard had not named New London as the place for the race, and stating that Harvard would not go to New London, unless she could get suitable quarters in time for this year's Crew. Yale accepted the challenge, fully aware that it was but conditional. If she could not accept it, conditional as it was, the proper thing was to tell Harvard so, and then Harvard would have had the choice of sending a challenge unincumbered by conditions, or none...
...RECENT writer in the Saturday Evening Gazette of March 26 last, with the usual spirit of fair play which characterizes the attitude of most of the Boston papers toward Harvard, took occasion to make some mean-spirited and untruthful insinuations in regard to the conduct of the '83 crew, when, a couple of weeks ago, a woman fell overboard from a bridge under which the crew had just passed. The crew naturally turned their boat as soon as possible, and hastened to the rescue, arriving in time to be of very material service...