Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...oarsmen on class eights and to the first boats of Eliot and Thayer Clubs today is the day of days. The "championship of the river" for their respective type of shell is no mean thing. Beyond the Locker Room at Newell these races may be regarded as wasted energy. More gifted roommates may have found it difficult to understand the "training" for such events. But to the man with the sweep the crowds on Harvard Bridge will be there to see his race, even though railway construction in reality accounts for the uninterested onlookers...
...Linder '19 was put in his place. Davis was moved to the first boat at the time of the shake-up, but R. M. Sedgwick '21, who rowed against the Navy and was then reduced to the second crew, has now resumed his seat in the first shell...
...chosen to represent the University against Yale. In order to limit expenses the members of that boat will leave here on the 3 o'clock rain on the afternoon of Friday, the twenty-third, spending the night at New Haven, and rowing the following afternoon in a Yale shell...
...notion of a distinctive color for each university had not been thought of in American institutions. In the spring of that year, however, a regatta was to be held on the harbor and six enterprising University students, among them President Eliot, then an instructor in the University, secured a "shell" of rather ponderous bulk and steered by the bow oar with the aid of a foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia must be worn...
Rowing is the most popular spring sport in the University. With a class regatta on Thursday deep interest has developed among the contending eights. But it has been the dim prospects of a meeting with a Yale shell that has served to put the increased vitality into the work at the boat house. It is only just that such endeavor should be rewarded, if financially it is possible...