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...appear. Livingstone was soon seen pushing off from the float of the Quinsigamond Boat Club, and only a few minutes elapsed before the Harvard representative pulled up from O'Leary's boat-house and took his position at the start. Livingstone had the choice of positions, and took the east shore, which gave him little or no advantage. At 5.18 P.M. the men were started. Livingstone took the water first, and with a short, quick, but powerful stroke shot ahead of his competitor. Goddard bent to his work at the rate of 34 long, clean strokes to the minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINGLE-SCULL RACE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...surmounted by flat arches, the screw-backs being of stone, and will be arranged with moulded brick mullions between, in groups of five to the lecture-rooms and four to the other rooms. The entrances to the building will be from the west, which is the front, and east sides, and will be furnished with a carved brick ornamentation overhead and around the sides. A base, five feet high, will extend around the building, in which will be set the basement windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVER HALL. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...round arched entrance, ornamented with carved brick. The stone steps leading up to the entrance will be seven in number. Over the entrance will be the "pediment," of moulded brick, enclosing the "tympanum," which will be handsomely carved, and will contain a brick panel, inscribed "Sever Hall." The east side, on Quincy Street, will be similar to the one just described, except that its doorway and pediment slightly differ in shape. The south end of the building will front Main Street, and will be quite plain in general appearance. A tier of triple windows will extend up the centre, three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVER HALL. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...first floor a broad hall will extend from the east entrance to the opposite side, bisected at right angles by a corridor running the entire length of the building. The vestibules, opposite each entrance, will be handsomely tiled. The outside main doors will be supplemented by six swinging ones just inside the hall, opening both ways, and handsomely finished in panels. The main hall will have a tiled floor throughout its entire length, while that of the long corridor will be of maple. This floor will contain six spacious recitation-rooms, suitably fitted up with platforms, blackboards four feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVER HALL. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »