Word: shell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saratoga was brought up. Harvard has been so feebly represented in this part of the Regatta during the past few years, that every one must feel that it is better to send nobody than one who is but a moderately good oar. Besides this, the price of a shell has to be considered in a year, when the cost of our summer's rowing will be nearly double what it was last year at Saratoga...
...undergraduates towards meeting the expenses of the crew this year, that it is earnestly hoped that the graduates will see the necessity of lending us some aid. In case it should not be found possible to raise the requisite amount for the purchase of a paper boat, the shell of last year will have to be used. We thoroughly believe, however, that the graduates will do their utmost to prevent us from being reduced to this discouraging necessity...
...Swiddle if they knew how; and if we could ostracize him it would give us all the greatest pleasure to do so. As I write this, I imagine myself for the moment an ancient Greek. I imagine myself scratching the word ??? on a bit of shell, and dropping the shell into a vase decorated with designs from the wars of the gods and the giants. And then I imagine myself walking off, and saying, "So, so, Mr. Swiddle, you'll cut a dash in the streets of Athens no more; but off you'll go to the barbaric regions...
...callow chickens tap against the shell...
...single-scull race there were two contestants, D. T. Seligman, '76, who rowed in a lap-streak, and had the inside position, and H. G. Danforth, '77, who rowed in a shell. Seligman hugged the bank so closely after starting that he succeeded in running aground several times before the stake-boats were reached. He pulled a rather quick and strong stroke, but used his arms too much and swung his body too little, - a fault very common among men who have learned to scull in boats with sliding seats. Danforth turned first, and won easily by about thirty seconds...