Yankee Schoolboys Abroad

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Contents

• Preface (opens in a new tab)

  Preface by the Brookline High School writers: the tour of twelve boys and two teachers through Scotland and England in July to September 1892, which the first eight articles were read to schoolmates; the average daily expense was about $2.50 and the trip about $230.
• The Itinerary (opens in a new tab)

  Key to a route map marking the bicycle, railroad and steamer legs of the tour.
• New York to Ben Lomond (opens in a new tab)

  The party sails from New York on 30 June 1892 on the State of Nevada, is seasick through a gale, lands at Glasgow, rides past Dumbarton and Balloch, and climbs Ben Lomond from Inverbeg in mist, seeing nothing from the top.
• On to Edinburgh (opens in a new tab)

  From Tarbet by steamer to Inversnaid and Rob Roy's cave, through the Trossachs to Callander, Doune, Dunblane and Stirling Castle, then Linlithgow and Edinburgh, with the castle, St Giles and Roslin Chapel visited and the Hawthornden caves.
• Abbotsford, Melrose, Dryburgh, Durham (opens in a new tab)

  A member lost on the road to Galashiels, a coast into town, Abbotsford with its armour, relics and library, and Melrose Abbey with its carved capitals and the grave of Michael Scott.
• The English Lakes, York, Sheffield, Chatsworth, and Haddon Hall (opens in a new tab)

  Ullswater to Patterdale, a long push over the fells to Keswick, the Lodore falls and Grasmere with Wordsworth's church and Dove Cottage, then York, the Rogers cutlery works at Sheffield and a soaking in the Chatsworth fountain.
• Shakespeare's England (opens in a new tab)

  Lodgings and the Royal pump rooms at Leamington, a dinner for fourteen, and a Bank Holiday visit to Rugby School, where a master admits the party when the boys are away.
• Oxford and London (opens in a new tab)

  Carfax, Balliol, Christ Church and the Bodleian at Oxford; a Thames row from Folly Bridge; Windsor and Eton; the crowded ride into London; St Paul's, the Bank of England, and the new London suits that replaced the bicycle uniforms.
• Excursion to Paris (opens in a new tab)

  The overnight Dover and Calais crossing and arrival in Paris at five in the morning, a restaurant where the party orders broth, the Eiffel Tower, the Tuileries fair, Notre Dame, the Place de la Concorde and Versailles.
• Homeward Bound (opens in a new tab)

  Route back through Birmingham and Chester, a view of Mr Gladstone, and the Moville steamer to Ireland; the Circassian crossing with its concerts and a verse about the ship, grounding in fog in the St Lawrence, then Montreal and the train to Boston.
• The A B C of the Party (opens in a new tab)

  An alphabetical verse, one line for each letter, on the party's mishaps and places: Appleby, the chocolate, the Bostonian trousers, the Hen that tried to kill Noyes, the peelers and the quarantine.
• A Day in London (opens in a new tab)

  A dawn visit to Billingsgate, a stroll through Covent Garden, the purchase of a pair of London trousers in Oxford Street, and the British Museum with its great reading room and London shopping customs.
• The Humorous Side of the Trip (opens in a new tab)

  Comic recollections of the tour: the bicycle suits from Boston tailors that the Yale party expected to be stylish, the meals and menu jokes on the voyage, and the members' nicknames.
• Linlithgow (opens in a new tab)

  A reminiscence of the ruined palace at Linlithgow, visited without guides, its great hall and the room where Mary Queen of Scots was born.
• The People We Met (opens in a new tab)

  Fellow passengers on the steamer, the disputes over deck chairs and rugs, and other acquaintances made on the voyage.