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...artist permits of every detail in the two boats, which form the central subject of the picture, being clearly delineated. The larger one, seen from fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted with unusual animation and attention to detail. The warm-colored sails are brought down in beautiful reflections in the limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch of opaque white light supplied...
...come back to fighting trim, now is the time. The form that the men showed Saturday when away from home won deserved praise and calls every undergraduate to turn out this afternoon to back the team with his presence and voice. The big games of the season are on deck and we must unite with the nine...
...clock edition: "With thousands of persons on deck to see the first college rowing race of the season the eights of Harvard, Princeton, and Pennsylvania got away on their mile and seven-eights race this afternoon shortly after 5 o'clock. The three shells came down to the starting line only a short time before the call to start. After some waiting the crews took their positions, Penn on the Boston side of the river, Harvard in the middle, and Princeton on the Cambridge side. . . .Thousands of persons lined the esplanade. . . Harvard appeared to have the edge...
...forward deck will be an especially constructed sliding rowing-seat for Coach Wray, from which he can demonstrate to the men in the shell alongside. Immediately behind this will be the forward cockpit with a seat for two people. In the compartment just behind this seat the engine will be placed with the operator's cockpit aft. The seat in this cockpit is for the engineer, who has, in past years, been in charge of the old launches, "Veritas" and "John Harvard." These older boats have been in service about 15 years and will continue to be used. They...
...burdened with a load of scientific instruments. Other men expose their bodies to the attacks of pestilential microbes for the advance of knowledge and the betterment of man's estate, while Alexander Agassiz rises with difficulty, when over-whelmed with sickness, and has his mattress laid on the deck of the tossing steamer in order that he may the better record the message which the dredge or trawl has brought to light from the dark abysses of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. In such men the body has truly become merely the vehicle of the soul...