Word: shell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students of Williston Seminary, at East Hampton, Mass., are taking a lively interest in boating. They have purchased a shell, and have challenged the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven...
...great that the experiment will not be made unless there is something else to fall back on in case it should be injured. If a boat could be ordered in England and paid for from some outside source, a boat could be built here, - using the English shell, to a certain extent, as a model, - and the race would then be rowed in whichever proved the faster. This is the only safe course, and we commend these facts to the serious consideration of those who have written to us, urging us to use England as the source of our boating...
...regatta occurred October 20. In all the races the distance rowed was one mile. The races were as follows: four-oared shell, 5 min. 34 sec. The second race was won by a picked crew in 5 min. 24 1/2 sec., the time of the University Four (handicapped by 10 sec.) being 5 min. 29 1/2 sec.; six-oared shell, time 5 min. 25 sec.; the single scull...
...oared race between the class crews was won by '77, time 13: 27 1/4; the single-scull race was easily won by Livingston in 16:02 1/4; the six-oared race between the Academic and Scientific Freshmen was won by the former in 14: 07; the four-oared shell-race between...
...crew who rowed in the Springfield and Saratoga races last summer there are but two now working. Of the last Freshman crew the captain alone has at this time definitely decided to row. Of the other candidates, two only ever rowed in a shell race, and this a Freshman race, two years ago. Moreover, the majority are under-sized men. The most superhuman captain, with such material to sustain him, could not make our chances brilliant...