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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...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 to say that no man got a good night's rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR POSITION IN REGARD TO THE RACE WITH YALE. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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