Word: london
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew will leave for New London...
...arrangements which have been made by the President of the H. U. B. C. with the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. for reduced rates between Boston and New London ought to satisfy all members of the University who wish to see the race. Tickets for the round trip, good for three days, June 27 - 29, will be sold for $3.50. If a sufficient number of names can be obtained a special train will leave Boston about 7 A.M. on the day of the race, and returning, will leave New London about 7 P. M. A book...
...race draws near, we are anxious to know something definite about the arrangements that are being made in New London for the convenience of the crew and the spectators...
...crew leaves here the 22d, the day after Class Day, and will go immediately to their quarters, which are four miles from New London, and on the opposite bank of the river, very near the start. A boat-house has been built for them in a little cove just before their quarters, and they will row their boat up to it from the town the day of their arrival. The Yale quarters are a mile farther up the river, at Gale's Ferry...
...seeing the race will be very good. Steamboats will follow the crews from start to finish, and it is guaranteed that they will do better than the poor tubs that followed the boats at Springfield last year; and there is no doubt that they will, for as New London is a seaport town, it of course has greater facilities for getting good boats than Springfield had. A train of platform cars, with seats arranged in the form of an amphitheatre, will also keep along by the side of the boats from start to finish. Each car will hold about eighty...