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...sister ship, S. S. Lexington, is expected to slide from the ways soon. Both Japan and Great Britain are building craft similar, but said to be inferior in speed and power. The nominal ancestors of the Saratoga : Saratoga I, a sloop of 18 guns, was built in 1780 by John Hemphreys ol Philadelphia, who later built the frigates Constitution, Constellation, etc. On Oct. 9. 1780, she captured four British vessels. Saratoga II, which mounted 26 guns and displaced 734 tons,† was flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary...
Saratoga IV, built by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1891, christened New York, was flagship of Rear Admiral Sampson in the defeat...
...With Mr. Baker's gift it is our expectation," said the report, 'that a complete plant will be built, comprising quarters for dormitories, dining halls, administration, classrooms, research, student and Faculty clubs, auditorium, a factory building for industrial management instruction, and athletics. Proper provision for extension will be made where this may be necessary. The plant will accommodate 1000 students. It is not expected that the buildings will be ready for occupancy before the fall of 1926. It is the hope of the Faculty that this School will not exceed 1000 students for an indefinite period in the future...
...Tamar, was inaudible east of the Sierras. Mr. Jeffers has never contributed to magazines, "thinking that poetry is nothing if it is not individual." Near Monterey, on a stormy ocean cliff, he and his wife live in "a thick-walled house and tower of gray-granite sea-boulders," built mostly with his own hands...
General Fries, who is an experienced engineer and the man who built up the Chemical Warfare Service from its beginning as the Gas and Flame Division of the engineers Corps, spoke on "Recent Developments in chemical Warfare." The speaker was introduced by Professor Edwin H. Hall, Rumford Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who reminded his audience that every man present might have to decide his course of conduct in reference to the next war, and would have to choose among pacifism, diplomatic peace, and military preparedness as means of preventing future conflicts...