Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were but few amusing incidents during the afternoon. The freshmen failed to do their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...
...hoped that the rumor that Mr. Penrose and Mr. Storrow will occupy seats in the 'varsity shell next June may be verified. But in the event that the crew of last year may not as a whole, again row on the Thames, the college may feel assured that the 'varsity as at present constituted is perfectly capable of maintaining the record of last year's crew...
Andover talks of forming a Boat Club; Yale offers to present her with an old shell in the most disinterested and philanthropic manner...
Blue Point Oysters on Shell...
...Columbia freshmen have issued the following challenge to the Harvard freshmen. "The freshman class of Columbia College hereby challenges the freshman class of Harvard College to an eight-oared shell race with coxswains, two miles straightaway, to take place at New London. Time and minor details to be arranged hereafter...