Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...waiters at the Harvard quarters have begun to talk about a race, and this afternoon, after commandeering some Yale oars to fit out a shell, an eight took to the water. It included Francis Parkman '18, C. F. Bound '32, Marshall Rawle '30, P. M. Whitman '32, P. H. Clark Jr. '30, E. C. Nickerson II '32, W. M. Rainbolt Jr. ocC, A. V. Woodworth Jr. '33, and O. S. Staples...
...Tony, shot himself in France because he acquired a venereal disease. Tony grew up outwardly normal, attractive, good at games, mildly social; inwardly he was stunted, emotionally infantile. Post-War girls find him tantalizing, do their best to seduce him, succeed only in making him withdraw further into his shell. One day Tony encounters an old-fashioned girl who is contemplating suicide for the old-fashioned reason that she has been jilted. Kindhearted, Tony comforts her, cheers her up, finds her different from all the girls he knows, is fascinated, not scared. All goes well, the babes in the wood...
...mile mark, practicing starts all the way. F. F. Colloredo-Mannsfeld '32, regular stroke, who was declared out of the boat for the rest of the week on doctor's orders yesterday, was in the coach's launch, while T. L. Armstrong '32 filled his place in the University shell. Armstrong, who had a taste of the first boat last week before the contingent left Cambridge, filled the stroke seat capably...
...Whiteside decided it would be better to give his regular stroke a chance to recover completely from the trouble which has interfered with his rowing intermittently during the season. It is hoped that by the end of the week he will be able to take his place in the shell again...
Armstrong, who has been at the stroke position in the Jayvee boat only two weeks, has rowed before in the first shell. In the final practice on the Charles before the squad left for the training quarters here, he took Colloredo's place for the latter half of the last workout when Coach Whiteside saw that, in his condition, rowing was proving uncomfortable...