Word: shell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution of Harvard's type it is more difficult to achieve a condition of perfect training, but it is not impossible. Coach Stevens' system of year round training, of long runs and hard workouts, is undoubtedly the only one that will insure the utmost strength in the Harvard shell. Hard work, and hard work alone, can bring the Crimson pennon fluttering in the lead at the end of a long four miles...
...with one leg wanted to row," he continued, "so we sent him to Weld boathouse, fitted up a special shell for him, weighted it accurately, and during the entire season the man took his exercise that way. There have been many cases of infantile paralysis where men have been greatly benefited by treatment. In one instance a young man who could hardly keep his feet if he was even slightly pushed, has taken up boxing under Coach Shevlin, and has become so proficient that he is entered for the University tournament in the near future. Another man with...
When an undergraduate at Harvard R. Keith Kane was on the crew two years and the football team three years, being Captain of the latter in 1921. Last year he studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and was a member of the Dark, Blue Shell in the English rowing classic between Oxford and Cambridge...
Outward Bound. Extravagant reports drifting in from London that this strange fancy-said to have originated in the bewildered imaginings of a shell-shocked soldier-is a masterpiece of modern dramatic literature, tended to irritate the Great American Sceptic. A severe first-night audience came to be shown, possibly to scoff. They remained, some of them literally, to pray...
...four oared shell was also launched in which some Sophomores, headed by Richard Trimble, went for a row. The 1927 coach will attempt another trip today, and if weather conditions remain favorable, Coach Newell may have some of the upper classmen on the water next week...