Word: built
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students return their most hearty thanks. On Wednesday night the crew made their first trip in the new Blakey shell. The dimensions of this boat are: length, 58 feet; width, 23 1/2 inches; weight, 225 pounds. This is undoubtedly one of the finest eight-oars ever built. On the paper boat also the makers seem to have expended all their skill. The crew now have an opportunity of fairly testing the two shells, and deciding the much disputed question of the comparative merits of cedar and paper for boat building. Mr. W. B. Close, of the Cambridge (England) University crew...
...have something which cannot be found elsewhere. I will wager that the air in the rooms in the top of University is patented by the Faculty. It is the hottest, closest, and foulest gas that ever was breathed by human beings. Add to this the most uncomfortable benches ever built by a carpenter, and you have a lovely picture of Harvard luxury. When cooped up in those historic attics, how I envy the manipulator of the peaceful lawn mower...
...University boat will probably be built by Waters...
...congratulate the Vassar Mis. upon reaching the expected end of "Man versus Hairpin," a story which bears resemblance to no other known literary work except "The House that Jack Built," with which it may reasonably claim kin. One easily gets the run of duplicate and duplicated, - "This is the girl who loved the man," etc. The number is, however, one of Vassar's usual merit. The Editor's Table thus sets forth negatively the chief...
...great Mr. Cornell to found a family monument at Ithaca; long before Cornell became as great as it is to-day. The 'bandy-legged individual' on the cover represents the venerable Governor Yale, an elderly gentleman, a royal governor that befriended Yale College when the noble red-man built his camp-fire on the very spot where Cornell's great training-school for mechanics stands...