Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Freshman eight made its initial trip yesterday in the Pocock shell which was built last year for the 1927 crew...
...been made thus far of the Pocock shell which was built last year for the Freshman crew. Today or tomorrow, however, if weather conditions are favorable, it will be used for the first time, and regularly thereafter...
...headquarters at the Cottage Club and take meals at the Princeton training table. The crews will row twice daily, at 10.30 o'clock in the morning and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The management has provided for the transportation to Princeton of two of the University shells in order to obviate the possibility of any delay owing to the strangeness of a shell to which the crews are unaccustomed. It is understood that during the trip no race of any kind will be held with the Princeton eights...
...third of the college students in this country fall to reach the goal of a degree, said Professor Wood of Columbia in the New York Times yesterday. These statistics are no bomb-shell to Harvard alumni and authorities. They indicate that a college course is merely like any other occupation that there is always a percentage which, because of lack of earnestness, preparation, and for other reasons, is crowded out in the competition. A majority of those more fit survive...
...Kane '23, who captained the 1923 University crew and rowed last year on the Oxford crew, said of the new boat, "There is no reason to fear for the new Harvard shell in rough water. It is narrow, but not so narrow as the one which found such difficult going on the Thames Saturday. It is modeled, rather, after the 1923 Oxford boat which weathered some very bad blows. I don't believe that the lines of the shell were completely responsible for the Oxford swamping. Watermanship and the outside the figured considerably...