Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...referee's tug as the signal for the crews to get into line. A rope will be stretched across the river, to which four row boats will be moored at a distance of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach...
Harris, Hamlin, Cabot, Brown and Latham have rowed for three years. Ayer was on the eighty-six crew last year; Dewey and Codman are the new men. The crew has bought the shell used by the university crew...
...freshman crew has shown a gratifying improvement in the last two weeks, and will undoubtedly take a better place than would have been accorded it some weeks ago. The men now handle their shell and oars with some skill, and are rowing well together with a steady, strong stroke...
Eighty-five has received a new shell from Waters, in exchange for the old one of last year, which was too small for the crew...
...cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection which they reached in former years. This lack of time upon the water presses hardest upon the freshman crew, who are all new men, and need a longer time to get into condition for shell rowing. All the crews, except the freshman, are now using sliding seats in barges, and will enter their shells in a few days...