The Yale crew will go to their quarters at New Haven on Saturday, June 14, a few days before the Harvard crew. Spectators will be provided with better accommodations for the race than is usual; the observation train will be somewhat longer; there will be 34 cars, with room for 2500 persons. All the seats in thirteen cars have already been sold.
This is the last year of the five years' contract between Harvard and Yale and the railroad company. Yale has been anxious to take early steps towards a renewal of the old contract or towards getting a new one, but the Harvard boating authorities have held back because the University Treasurer will not allow the manager of the crew to speculate with the crew's funds. The present contract does not treat the college rowing associations at all fairly, as practically all the advantages of the big gathering go to the railroad and to the city.
Read more in News
Seating of Memorial Hall.
