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...Freshmen covered the two-mile course in ten minutes, twenty-one seconds today, rowing at the rate of twenty-eight strokes to the minute. The second University shell kept the yearling paddlers well in hand, however, out distancing them easily, though stroking only twenty-four...
...shell which was damaged when it was being transported to Red Top has been repaired and will now be used by the Freshman eight...
...clock the University and Freshman crews arrived at Red Top. Immediately following the arrival all three eights were given a short work-out consisting of a three-quarter mile paddle down stream against wind the tide. This is the first time since the spring of 1916 that a University shell has been launched on the Thames. The Yale crews came down from Gales Ferry to cheer Harvard just as the latter arrived from Cambridge...
...with great success in the world war. The projectiles used in it vary only slightly in weight, averaging about 97 pounds. The highest muzzle velocity is 735 meters per second, or approximately 2,350 feet per second, and the maximum range with the latest type of steel "stream-line" shell is 1,900 meters, or almost twelve miles...
Maynard, who has been rowing at stroke in the "Cosmopolitan" shell, is only temporarily taking the place of Peters in the first boat, who has been incapacitated for a short time on account of boils on his left wrist...