Word: shell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale, or any other of the American university courses of which I know anything, as the (about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts of it where they cannot do even that. If, therefore, these English universities have developed such a prolific and far-reaching rowing spirit...
...varsity crew went out yesterday afternoon at the usual time in spite of the rough water. Coach Perkins steered the shell and Dr. W. A. Brooks and Harry Keyes coached the men from the launch...
...varsity crew followed the race in the shell. They took position just outside of the course and, though rowing a slower stroke than any of the class crews, kept pace with the race...
...freshman crew went out in a shell Monday for the first time, and are showing all the faults usual to a green crew getting accustomed to an unsteady boat. The crew is badly crippled by the sickness of Sprague, and the absence of Houghton, who has left college on account of his father's illness...
There has been some doubt expressed as to whether the freshmen will enter the one mile race next Tuesday. If they are able to keep the shell on its keel by that time, they will surely be sent...