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...clothing will be distributed among local charitable organizations, but most of the text-books will be kept in the Phillips Brooks House loan library, to be used by students on payment of five cents per volume. The magazines will be sent to the seamen's mission and later distributed aboard ships...
Just at present the United States Navy has great need of college men to fill certain positions aboard battleships; which require a peculiar kind of intelligence and training. For example, gun pointers, sight setters, spotters, and turret crews are needed, and would be deplorably lacking if the country were faced by sudden war. The elements of mathematics are all that would be required for such work, although greater knowledge, especially in mechanics and engineering, could be used to advantage...
Service in the navy aboard a battleship or special training ship, especially during the summer months, should be very attractive to men interested in nautical science, engineering, or the science of war. This is practically the plan which will be submitted by Captain C. C. Marsh in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening. President Lowell and Professor Hollis will also be present to speak and it is hoped that students having views on the subject will offer suggestions from the floor. The adoption of a short term of enlistment for college men means the opening to them...
...guaranteed speed is 16 miles an hour but his was exceeded in the official trial in the Basin last week, when the boat covered a measured mile at the rate of 18.6 miles per hour with four people aboard, and at the builder's trial at Bath, Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when...
From now on the Pen and Brush Club will hold an open exhibition of the artistic work of the late Walter Dana Swan, former instructor in Architecture, in the Exhibition Room of Robinson Hall. The work consists of about 50 pencil sketches from scenes in New England and aboard, and a few architectural designs. The sketches, although simple and done only in pencil, show a very high degree of artistic merit, as do the architectural designs...