Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Advocate has much reason to congratulate herself on the last issue of her estimable paper, for the eighth number is decidedly the best one of the year. The editorials are few in number, clear and to the point; most of the stories and sketches have originality and show careful workmanship; the verse is less ambitious than usual and therefore more pleasing; and the College Kodaks-if they be English 12 themes-are of an A grade...
...forty of the faculty, views of the yard and of the college buildings, and a number of group pictures. Ten pages will be devoted to pictures of the senior class. A sample page is on exhibition at the studio, and all who have seen it pronounce the style and workmanship exceptionally fine. The volume will be handsomely bound in morocco...
...during her travels in Mexico. Through the generosity of Mr. Stephen Salisbury the museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts of the building will be taken from moulds made by Mr. Edward Thompson. The casts are valuable as showing the strange workmanship in the old stone carvings of the palace. A collection of human skulls found near Zuni has been presented by Mrs. Hemenway; this collection will be of great assistance in comparative study...
There is much dissatisfaction among the members of the Athletic Association with the cups given as prizes. If a man trains hard and wins a contest he deserves a better trophy than the pewter cup now given. The Association can give silver and bronze medals of good quality and workmanship for $3.50 and $2.50 a piece respectively. The first prize cup costs about $5.00. By making the change the management would satisfy winners, increase the entries and save money. Why should the medals not be given in the coming University meeting...
...persons about college appreciate what a gift the new boat house is. It is perhaps the finest thing of its kind in America. The workmanship, conveniences and design are excellent. The two bath rooms are fully as good. if not better, than any others in Cambridge. The two piazzas will afford lounging room for hundreds of students. The large dressing room is heated with steam and furnished with two hundred large lockers which could easily be used by two persons each in case of need. The whole building is well lighted and may be well ventilated-by no means...