Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which...
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Within the next week a shell which has just been built at the Newell boathouse will be ready for the water. This boat is designed for a heavy crew and has exceptionally last lines. It is similar to the one which the undefeated Freshman crew used last year, but has a little more canvas on the bow. As soon as it is completed W. F. Lutz, for twenty years builder of Harvard's shells, will start work on a boat which should be completed by the Midyear period. This boat will be built on the same lines...
...Freshman crew, Lacrosse base, ball and soccer squads will not get under was on Monday, but will probably hold their organization meetings later on next week. Crew will probably be the latest start off to its start, the launching of the first Freshman shell not being locked for until a week from Monday...
...expected from Brown is not known, but it is to be presumed that he will stick to his old methods that in the past have produced a fair share of winners, and that last year were climaxed by an undefeated eight, several times conqueror over the University shell in practice brushes