Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...train the crew. They have as yet no training table, and no restrictions have so far been placed on their diet and beverages. It has always been felt that considerable valuable time has been lost each spring in changing from the action of hydraulic machines to the light swift shells that are used on the harbor, so that the practice in the tank is anxiously looked forward to. Of course all that the candidates can do in the way of speed is to churn up the water while the shell remains stationary. - New York Herald...
There is a plan afloat at Yale to build a tank large enough to contain a stationary shell, in which the crew can get practice in rowing on water during the winter...
...divinity. Once more we need not commit ourselves to his theology, nor to that which for many years after, remained the ruling theology of the university, in order to recognize that in that act and all which was connected with it, there was a true breaking open of the shell of dogma and a participation by the college thought in the more universal currents which were sweeping through the world. It was an opening of the truth to the more general influence of truth. It was as if a skin full of water which had been floating in the ocean...
...read or talk, - I have seen none studying as yet. Others amuse themselves by watching through a telescope the various steam yachts and sail-boats which are continually passing. At about ten the crew walk down to the little boat-house, and get ready for their morning pull. The shell in use now is the old '85 boat, in which the 'varsity won their races last year. It is probably not quite as strong and stiff as the new shell, but it is much steadier, and seems to suit the men better...
...boat-house stands directly below the 'varsity quarters. This is a long, low building, plainly built, and is used by both the university and freshman crews. Besides their regular shell, the 'varsity always carry down an extra one, to provide against accident, and this we can see wrapt up in cloths on the floor of the boat house. The boat-house provides accommodation for the boatman, and for the engineer of the launch...