Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat last season, has not commenced training, and says positively that he will not row this year. At present he is coaching the freshmen crew, the members of which take daily exercise on the rowing weights. At present no freshmen are trying for seats in the 'Varsity shell. The men run two miles every day and row from 30 to 40 minutes in the tank. Captain Stevenson thinks that the men are getting along well and that there is material enough for a fine crew. On March 1st the men will go to the training table...
...reported that at the fair in aid of the new Homeopathic College, in New York, next spring, an eight-oared shell is to be voted to the favorite college.- Columbia Letter in University...
There is a feeling at Oxford that cricket and foot-ball tend to weaken the crew by drawing away men who would other wise try for a place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
...candidates for the two crews are now in training. Ten new men wish to row in the University shell. There are Klapp, Denton, Beekman, Pelton and Wainwright, all of '89; McIlvaine and Meikleham, of '90; and Lunt, Foote and Lamarche, S. of L. None of the old crew was seen on the first day, and it is not definitely known how many of them will consent to row. Klapp is the captain, and Sidney Harris the coach...
...allowed to take their course until now the desired end has arrived of itself. And how does it find us? It finds us up abreast with Harvard, Yale and Columbia. a university of 1000 men, with a good gymnasium, with an athletic council out of debt, an eight oared shell of first-class build and model already paid for and unequalled facilities for rowing. With far less material in former years, we have crossed the line with twelve college crews astern, we have rowed the greatest of crews, Oxford; we have filled our library so full of trophies that some...