Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, one of these editors compiled a supplement called Shells?a critique of college architecture in the U. S. Posing as a "Loafer," he pondered the causes and meanings behind university structures. "The finished shell," said he, "represents the ideals of the college, the type of its education, . . . imagination, independence, . . . enslavement to shadows, to predetermined notions, petrifactions, parchment, self-adulation, pretense and the higher bunk...
Shortly before the Henley distance was reached there occurred the accident which effectually squelched Pennsylvania's chances. The oar-lock of Reeve, rowing at seat six in the Quaker shell snapped off, resulting from what appeared to be a crab, and after a few strokes, he let his oar go overboard, attempting for the balance of the race to pass the beat to the oarsmen behind him, going forward and backward on his slide with each stroke...
Coach Haines' third Freshman eight will race the Huntington School this afternoon in a mile race in the Basin. The Crimson shell will be boated as follows: Stroke, T. H. Eliot; 7. L. L. Wallingford; 6, M. M. Canfield; 5, H. R. Earle; 4, Louis Reynal; 3, C. R. Hayes; 2, L. B. R. Foster; bow, Franklin Dexter; coxswain, P. T. Haskell
...Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins, Bill and Charlie,'" "Walsh, the wild man, who goes wild on oil and sugar." The LaFollette crowd, it was announced, had crawled under the tent and set up a three-shell game. Finally the new club President, J. Frederick Essary of the Baltimore Sun, was made to a ride on a hobby horse...
Confusion was caused when the men tried to swim instead of holding to the shell, Rideout, muffled in heavy coxswain's togs, sank several times but was saved by Theopold and Pond. He was unconscious for some time, but was resting comfortably at Stillman infirmary last night...