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...placing the fountain on one side or the other of the main entrance to the living-room. The fountain, which has been approved by the architect of the Union, will be about three feet in height, of grey Tennessee marble in strict keeping with its intended surroundings. Over the shell-shaped bowl, and supported on either side by dolphins, is the University shield, carved in high relief on a background studded with objects symbolic of the sea. The whole piece is one of great beauty, and should add greatly to the general effect of the Union hall...
...oared shell "Harvard," which the University recently received from the estate of Roger Clifford Watson '69, has been mounted on an oak panel and hung on the north wall of the main reading room in the Union...
...Harvard" was used by the University crews of '58, '59 and '60, in the first of which President Eliot '53, at that time a tutor in Harvard College, rowed at four, and Professor A. Agassiz '55, at bow. She was the first six-oared shell built in America, and differed from the racing shell of today only in being shorter, wider and higher out of the water, and having more simple rigging...
...University crew, but was used on several occasions by class crews. The only defeat she suffered between 1857 and 1861 was on the three-mile course on Lake Quinsigamond at the Worcester Citizens' Regatta, July 27, 1859, when she was defeated by two seconds by the Yale six-oared shell...
...University has recently received from Mr. T. S. Watson '99, as a gift from the estate of his father, the late Robert Clifford Watson '69, the bow of the six-oared shell "Harvard," the first shell of its kind to be built in America. The "Harvard" was used by the University crews of 1858, 1859 and 1860, in the first of which President Eliot '53, then a tutor in Harvard College, rowed fourth oar, and Professor A. Agassiz...