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...cedar shell which has just been built for Yale by Oliver, the Harlem boat builder, is 63 feet 3 inches long and weighs 260 pounds. By the terms of the contract the price to be paid is $550 with an additional $500 if the crew uses the boat in the race and wins. The Yale Navy has also given an order to Waters of Troy for a paper boat. The two shells will be taken to New London and given a fair trial, and the faster will be used in the race...
...constructive problems with which the modern builder has to deal properly considered as architectural? (Professor Hamlin: "The Difficulties of Modern Architecture," in "The Architectural Record" for the quarter ending December 31, 1891; Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture...
Davy, the Cambridge boat builder, has already started on the frame of the shell for this year's 'varsity crew. The lines of last year's boat will be reproduced but there will be several new features, the principal result or which will be to make the shell lighter. The first point where a new idea comes in is in the space between the gunwale and the "rising." This piece of wood, which is parallel with the gunwale, usually stops at the cockpit but in the new plan it is carried to the end of the boat. Then the gunwale...
...greater part of the Mound builder and Central American collections will be gathered expressly for the purpose although specimens from the Harvard Museums will be transported if required...
...poems, "The Answer" is the better. But it is decidedly inferior to what its author has done before and certainly cannot stand comparison with its author's most lately published poem, "Dolarosa," - although the diction is simple and natural and certain lines are very good. "The Builder - Science" has the double fault of extreme vagueness of thought and inaptitude of diction...