Word: troy
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...alumni of Cornell have nominated Charles S. Frances, of the Troy Times as their representative of the board of trustees...
...more than ever before there is a great need of money. Heretofore the crew has rowed its races in borrowed shells as the boat made in the freshman year by Waters of Troy, although made over last year, is utterly useless...
Russell Sage has donated a handsome dormitory to the Troy Female Seminary...
Captain Ives has ordered two paper shells for the Yale crew from Waters of Troy, N. Y. They are of the same pattern as the shell used last year. This action of Captain Ives was contrary to general expectation as it was thought that another cedar boat or an aluminum shell would be ordered...
...will be composed entirely of aluminum, with the exception of the wash box, which will be wood, and the outriggers, which are to be of steel tubing, hard drawn. The shell will weigh 175 pounds. Ordinary paper shells weigh about 225 pounds, and Waters, the famous shell builder of Troy, N. Y., claims that a 200 pound eight oared shell is an exceedingly light one. The aluminum shell will be built in two pieces, being divided fore and aft and them joined amidships. It is designed to carry an average weight of 175 pounds...