Word: shell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...junior crew spent most of Saturday afternoon rigging their new shell, which has been hired from the Bradford Boat Club. Towards evening the crew went out in the shell for the first time this year and rowed a few short stretches. The launch which the crew has been using is having its boiler repaired in order to make it fast enough to keep up with the shell. Connor, who has been rowing at six, has been taken out of the boat, and this has necessitated a change in the whole order of the crew. They are now rowing as follows...
...crew is almost ready to go into the shell, and yesterday the boat which they have hired was towed up to the boat house. This boat belongs to the Bradford Boat Club and is almost new, having been built by Davy last year. It is considered very fast...
Cornell's new shell, which was ordered of P. Rough, of Oxford, England, last summer, has arrived in Ithaca. The dimensions of the shell are 62 feet 4 inches long, 22.5 inches beam, 6.5 inches deep at bow, and 5.5 at stern. The length is a little greater than the regular American boat, but it is the narrowest shell in Cornell's stock. The seats are arranged away from the centre and on the side on which the man rows, the four port men being on a line on one side, and the four starboard men lined...
Neither the 'varsity nor any of the class crews went on the river yesterday on account of the high wind and rough water. Every morning Mr. Faulkner is coaching, in a pair-oared shell, the men who have no morning recitations. The crew is improving daily in watermanship...
Yesterday afternoon the Weld Boat Club eight-oared crew went out on the river in a shell for a short row. This is the first crew to go out in a shell this spring. The order was: Stroke, Stevens; 7, Delaney; 6, Dexter; 5, Matthews; 4, Wilkinson; 3, Hall; 2, Stafford; bow, Dubois...