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...freshmen are now rowing in their shell. It is the old '88 boat which was injured last year...
...FRESHMAN GLASS OF HARVARD: - The undergraduate freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the undergraduate freshman class of Harvard to a two-mile straight-away, eight-oared shell race, to occur at a time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
DEAR SIR - The freshman class of Harvard accepts the challenge of the freshman class of Columbia to an eight-oared shell race with coxswains, two miles straightaway. Time, place and minor details to be arranged here after...
...crew will get into their shell this week...
There were but few amusing incidents during the afternoon. The freshmen failed to do their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...