Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Historic college near the river, home to the most successful college boat club on the Cam.
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This guide to Jesus College in Cambridge follows Steve Fairbairn, a law student from Melbourne who arrived in the eighteen eighties and spent more of his time on the River Cam than in the library. It moves from his Boat Races against Oxford to the coaching quarrel that split English rowing between the wars, and to a long winter race on the Cam that still starts at the college boathouse. Best heard in the courtyard beside the chapel.
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