Word: boated
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...various gifts to the University received during the past year. This statement does not represent the total of the donations as certain items have not yet been made public. Mrs. Henry Draper (on account of Draper Memorial), $9,999.99 John Simpkins, 20,000.00 Harvard Club of New York (new boat house) 25,000.00 Anonymous (for use of Botanical Garden), 3,000.00 Miss Marian C. Jackson (towards the salary of are instructor in the History and Art of Teaching), 1,625.00 Messers. Storey and Putnam, trustees, (payment towards certain salaries in the Medical School), 1,000.00 Society for Promoting Agriculture...
...special fund for Music 7), 40.00Frederick S. Converse (special fund for Music 7), 20.00A. C. Coolidge (for purchase of books), 59.65John Harvey Trent (for expense of the Portion of Riant Library devoted to theology and hagiography), 800.00Alexander Agassiz (for changes and improvements at the new boat house), 6,145.00J. K. Paine (for purchase of books and expenses of chamber Concerts), 17.97Theobald Smith. (for research in Laboratory of Comparative Pathology), 25.00Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson (for completion of University Museum), 100,000.00Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw...
...object of the work has been so to regulate the water in the tank that it will not offer too much resistance to the oar, and will correspond in its general action to the motion of water when the boat is moving. To accomplish this there will be two propellers fixed at the bow of the boat, run by electric motors and other specially constructed machinery in addition if necessary. In this way there will be a continual current of water, starting at the bow, turned by deflecting planes down either side and returning by the added power...
...concrete tank is now completed. It is sixty three feet long and twenty six feet wide, rectangular in shape and with rounded corners. The sliding seats are to be placed in a rectangular boat, similar in general construction to an ordinary eight, which will be supported from the bottom of the tank by metal braces, skeleton underwork and water proof compartments, through which the returning current of water will pass. On either side of the boat will be a wooden platform four feet in breadth which will serve as a support for men getting in and out of the boat...
Arrangements have been completed for a boat race between Yale and Annapolis. The race will be rowed on May 11, on either the James or Severn River...