Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fourteen candidates for the University crew met Saturday and began to row in the shell which has been placed in the tank in the gymnasium. Besides the rowing the candidates will take a long run every day and work in the gymnasium. They will devote two full hours a day to training and rowing. Rowing on the harbor will be begun as soon as the weather will permit...
...owed $206 on one that had been bought in 1886. An outcome of our long credit system arising from a lack of proper financial support! The experiment of trying an English boat was thought expedient. It was not safe, however, to trust wholly to an innovation, so a native shell had to be ordered at the same time. This increased expenses, of course, but if the college realized the importance of having a good boat for its crew to sit in, I am sure it would not accuse the management of extravagance in this direction...
Then our correspondent informs us that "it was deemed expedient" to get an English shell, but, as it would not do to rely entirely on this innovation it was thought wise to buy another American shell. Either we are absolutely thick-headed or else there is some flaw in the reasoning of men who "deemed it expedient" to get an English shell and still found it necessary to buy a new American shell. Nothing is farther from us than to wish to have the chances of our crew in any way injured by a fear of spending the necessary money...
...last fall. During the season of 86-7 only one new boat was bought and on that there was left a balance due of $206. The '88 class crew boat was broken by the boat club and the club had to pay $180; half the cost of their new shell. A bill of $80 also came in for a boat bought of Fear on in 1884. Under the head boats I have put freight and duty on the English shell and extensive alterations which had to be made. Old liabilities have turned up to the amount of $743.48. These have...
John Blakie, the shell boat builder of Cambridge, has just completed the drawings and a model of a cat boat which he believes will be a world beater. She will be sailed in the regattas next season...