Unusual Requests

From time to time I get unusual requests for specific cards and this one certainly had me thinking hard recently.  The brief was  a card for a friend's grandson who was a keen oarsman and about to go to Oxford University.  Luckily I came across a picture which  I felt would suit and I scanned a dictionary definition to use (something which I often resort to when all else fails).  Background paper is by Papermania, numbers were die cut and the word done on the computer.