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...obliged to disband. This statement has occasioned much surprise among most of the members of the class, and has called forth some rather unfavorable opinions on the management of the crew. Few men realize how expensive a crew is; especially a freshman crew for whom a barge and a shell must be bought, and their expenses at New London paid, in addition to the usual expenses of the ordinary class crew. Now, if these men who are dissatisfied with the management of the crew could see a report of its receipts and expenditures, there is no doubt that they would...
...necessary expenditures of a class crew are an amount varying from year to year. It depends on the serviceableness of the shell used the previous year, and upon the number of weeks the crew remains at a training table. This year the expenses of all the class crews will be lessened, not only by the amount formerly paid for a coach, but also by a decrease in the bill for a training table. In former years, when all the crews had but one coach, some of them had to row at so late an hour as to be unable...
...upper class crews: For services at the boat house, and for entrance fee at the class races, $125; new oars, $75; training table from three to four weeks, $150. This would make $350 the minimum amount necessary for a class crew, which has a barge and a good shell. It generally happens, however, that two shells are needed by a crew during four years. This has been the case with all classes from '83 to '86. The price of a shell...
These figures, of course, do not apply to the running expenses of a freshman crew. A freshman class must buy a shell and a barge, furnish a training table until the end of June, and pay for a trip to New London, where living is very expensive...
...shut at night from the freest of the world, and not a soul can get in or out without the porter's bringing the keys. At Harvard it would be impossible to do that. Harvard gave me the impression of an English college in the quad of which a shell has burst; the halls are all separate, and you can walk around them. There and precision of life in our two Universities. They have lost all that at Harvard. I have found that not all Americans remember the relation of Harvard is an alumnus of Emmanuel Collegem, Cambridge...