Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale freshman shell, built by Waters, of Troy, has been delivered at the boat house. The most noticeable points are that it is heavier, broader and deeper than the university boats, and has rather short outboards. It is rigged with gear which Appleton, '86, invented for use on the university boat, and with metal runners on wooden slides. The price...
...bogus sailors are around again this gear with their "smuggled" cigars. They are "imported" from Boston and wholesale at ten dollars a thousand. Freshmen beware...
...their stay at the quarters. They take two long pulls every day, and while away the intervening time in playing ball, rifle shooting, etc. An account of the crew appeared to-day in a New London paper, which is rather amusing. It has as a heading "Giants get into gear;" and among other things it speaks of Capt. Mumford as being a "veritable Samson," and of Burgess and Yocum as being the "big fellers" of the eight. Accounts like this are very common among the daily papers here, and are read with great pleasure by the men at the quarters...