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...open weather and getting on the water. For many years no crews have been able to be on the river as early as this, and it is a matter of congratulation that this year the weather has not been severe enough to keep the river frozen over for any length of time...
...have a new paper shell, but beyond this there has been nothing of especial interest to say of it. The shell will be built on the conventional Waters model, and will be about the same as the boat used last year. It is to be sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp the gunwales of the shell and still control the rudder. This will...
...temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...
...hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life of a man of seventy bears to his last three months But whatever may be man's age, his origin...
...greatest as well as the most important growth in the School during the past eighteen years is not to be found in the attendance, but in the length of time students have remained...