Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plains of Picardy over which the German offensive is now raging are not only pitted with the shell-holes and lined with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England...
...club crew. In his first year at the University he was captain and stroke of his 1919 eight which defeated the Yale freshmen, setting up a record for the course. Last year Emmet stroked the second University boat and this year was advanced to that seat in the first shell. He succeeds F. Parkman '19, who was appointed acting captain in the fall...
Coach Haines directed the first University eight in its longest row of the season yesterday afternoon. The shell went beyond the Cottage Farm Bridge and down the basin as far as open water permitted, rowing back upstream as far as the Stillman Infirmary and returning to Newell. No changes were made in the seating of any of the upper crews. Prior to the practice, Coach Haines outlined preliminary training rules for both University and Freshman squads. Beginning this week a modified training schedule will be inaugurated, including strict prohibition of smoking and early hours...
...races with both Princeton and Yale the visiting crew will use the home crew's shell. In the latter case alterations in the rigging will be made to allow for the different systems of rowing taught at the University and at Yale and Princeton...
University oarsmen had their first workout on the Charles River yesterday, when two of Coach Brown's crews, the fourth Freshman and a mixed University and Freshman shell had a limited row from Weld up and down the short stretch of open water below the Anderson Bridge. Coach Haines has decided not to put any of the upper crews on the river until the latter part of the week, when it is hoped the launch can follow the crews. However, two more shells will take to the water today. It is expected that by next Monday, when the Newell Boathouse...