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...entirely completed. In the interior the iron stairways and rough woodwork, consisting of floor beams and studs in the partitions, have been completed, and the lathing and rough plastering has been finished. All the decorative plaster and finished woodwork, however, is still to be put in. Dark pine floors, window and door casings, book cases, exhibition cases, tables and chairs, all of quartered oak, are yet to be made for the libraries and museums of the building. The oak desks and platforms for the lecture rooms will not be put in until some time during the summer...
...brain, nerve, heart, skill, adroitness, quickness worth cultivating into Polyphemus? Has not this idolatry of burly Sullivans, and Wooly Goliaths game far enough? Why does this good old game of football languish in America? Why does good old Rugby languish? Why do not the men who pine upon the bleachers take this up and make it popular? It is a better game in some respects and less brutal than its American brother. It is less sure to maim and kill. But there is room enough for all of them. CHARLES G. FALL, '68, Venice, December...
...engineers of the Commission have made the following calculations: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; filling, 400,000 cubic yards; concrete masonry, 41,000 cubic yards; piling, 490,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 1,100,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riprap, 10,000 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided...
...meeting of the Forestry Club this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Holworthy 8. Mr. J. R. Johnson, Instructor in Botany, will speak on "Wood-destroying Fungi;" R. F. Hammatt '06 on "The Jack-Pine;" and H. F. Studley '05 will give a review of the Forestry Magazine. The election of a new secretary of the club, in place of H. Davis '05, resigned, will take place. All men in the University interested in forestry are invited to be present...
...most striking part of the building is a large reception room for ladies, occupying the greater part of the first floor. The floor of this room is of Georgia pine, and the doors and other finishings are of cypress. The walls are of rough plaster, painted a dark green, with a broad frieze in a lighter tint. The ceiling is supported by two large beams, which run cross wise and give a substantial appearance to the entire room...