Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wail goes up from Columbia over the disheartening showing made thus far by their university crew. Not only are all the candidates entirely new men in a university shell, but several of them have never rowed before. In addition the men are very light, avenging only 156 lbs. Professor Goodwin, their coach, thinks nevertheless, that they will give our crew a hard rub when the race comes in June. Not so the students. Their dismal foreboding are given in the following extract from one of the Columbia papers...
...this last picture would lead us, however, to expect better work from its artist, Mr. Case, than the picture he offers us later on "Politeness as a Fine Art." The other pictures are fair, although we suggest to the artist who designed the illustration of the new Yale shell that he should have placed the cannon on the bow of the boat rather than on the stern. The two articles "So Benevolent," and "Our New Shell" are up to the average of college standard, but we fail to see the merit in that on "What do You Wear?" The arrangement...
...Yale shell from Waters will be the counterpart of ours...
Captain Perkins was in Troy on Saturday to make arrangements with Waters about a new shell for the university crew...
...were useless. Jackson, by a long flank march, struck the isolated right wing under Howard a crushing blow and sent it reeling back upon the main army. This was a complete surprise, and took Hooker completely aback. He seemed dazed, and in this emergency was knocked senseless by a shell striking a post on which he was leaning. This accounts largely for his slow and comatose action during the rest of the battle. with very little to check him, Jackson was pressing forward and had almost pierced the centre of the Union position when he was compelled to reform...