Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boathouse is at the foot of the incline on which the quarters are situated. There are the boats, with John Smith to watch over them, and most zealous watchman he is. Besides the new shell built by Waters, there is the old '82 shell ready for an emergency, and a pair oar or two. The boathouse is a comparatively venerable old building, having served for Bancroft's crews and been removed from its original situation. Both Columbia crews have arrived, but Yale has not yet made its appearance. The university crew of Columbia is much lighter than...
...about half-past four, the two substitutes, Keith and Yocum, '85, came out, and placing their pair-oar lapstreak in the water pulled away with a swinging stroke toward the lower basin. Hardly were they out of sight when Captain Perkins gave the orders to bring out the new shell. The boat which the crew rowed in is the new one lately received from Waters of Troy, and is a beauty. The men were the same as were published a few days ago. They wear this year a striped cap with a particularly broad vizor to protect their eyes from...
...freshmen, in the race with Columbia will use the same shell used by the seniors in the class races...
...Benson, former coach of the Cambridge crew of England, coached the University crew last Friday. As the launch was again broken down he was carried alongside in the junior shell by a crew composed of the University and Freshman substitutes, of a member of the '79 crew, and several...
...Columbia within the last four years. The crew rows every day at about six o'clock. Col, Bancroft coaches them from the steam launch, which enables him to get a better view of the men and gives the coxswain abundant opportunity of learning how to steer the shell and to coach...