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...boat 40 feet long, would be an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and four seamen. Two members of such a unit, the ensign and the engineer, are required to have had some experience. The former has to be familiar with coastwise navigation, know how to read charts, and to fix cross bearings. Engineers are to know how to properly handle their engine. Certain men will be enrolled as quartermasters with the understanding that they will learn their duties immediately. Members of the University have the opportunity of forming among themselves patrol boat units, and deciding whom they want for ensign...
...November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...
...that a proposal be made to the towns of New Brunswick and Princeton to try what sum of money they could raise for the building of the college by the next meeting, that the trustees may be better able to judge in which of these places to fix the college." In September, 1752, they voted that the college be fixed in Princeton and ground was broken there in 1754. Soon afterwards the cornerstone of the first building, Nassau Hall, was laid, and the building completed in 1757. It was 170 feet long and 54 feet wide...
...groups of members wishing to eat together should hand in their lists as soon as possible, so that an assignment of club tables may be made this week. Students must sign up early so that the assignments can be handled with dispatch. The management reserves the right to fix the registration at each table...
...Undergraduate coaching was an innovation worth making. But still more encouraging was the fact that one of the plays was written by a student in the college. In the last few years undergraduate plays have been extremely rare. The sub-Bakerite students have been able to design scenery, to fix electric lights, to sell tickets, to set stages, and to act. Now they even find themselves able to direct productions. But they evidently think that this is the limit of their powers. Playwriting they have left to the Graduate School and Radcliffe; and what should be essentially an activity...