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...crew is to have two new shells this year; one is being built by Clasper at Cambridge, England, and is expected here on the fifteenth of March. The other boat will be built in this country. The builder will be decided upon in a few days when the bids now coming in have been considered. Davy has been given an order for a new barge to be ready by the 17th of next month. Both shells are to be of cedar, and all three boats will be English-rigged with the exception of the cross-seating...
...time of Moses there ruled over Assyria a king named Ramman-nirarl, a great warrior and builder. From the ruins of a temple which he restored comes an alabaster tablet, twelve inches by nine, with an inscription recording the restoration. This tablet, recently presented to the Semitic Museum, will be the subject of Professor Lyon's Assyrian reading in the Fogg Art Museum at four o'clock today. It will be exhibited and explained, and will be illustrated by lantern slides giving views of Assyrian books, ruins and temples...
Next Monday, George Webb, the Worcester boat builder, will begin work upon a new shell for the Harvard eight, which is a radical departure from ordinary eight-oared shells in that it will be a round, full boat, carrying her lines to the extreme length of stem and stern. Mr. Webb intends to build from designs approved by Coach Watson, a boat that will weigh not more than two hundred pounds, and will carry 1350 pounds. It will be of Spanish cedar and 63 feet long, with a beam of 22 inches and an extreme depth of 13.25 inches...
Charles B. Elliot, the first shell-builder to adopt the sliding seat, died recently in New York of heart disease. He built shells for Harvard and Yale and accopanied the '69 Harvard crew to England...
...Paul's Society held a very successful reception to new members of the University at the Colonial Club last evening. Bishop Lawrence, Dean Hooper, Mr. King and the other members of the Cambridge clergy were present, besides Mr. Nathan Matthew, the builder of Matthews Hall and the founder of the Matthews scholarships, Professors Ashley, Wright, de Sumichrast, Morgan, Wendell, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Gardner. Short addresses were made by Bishop Lawrence, Mr. Matthews, Professor de Sumichrast and H. E. Addison '96, the president of the society...