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Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
...Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins...
Harvard Spares -- Mechem, Roberts, Cutter, Jameson, Patrick, Pope, Emerson, Ecker. Queens Spares -- Hepburn, Holland, Cowley, Guy, Catlin, Gibson, Carver, McGill...
First Period--Poupore, assist by Carver, 18 :20. Second Period--Pope, unassisted, 4:20; Cutter, assist by Mechem, 11:01: Carver, unassisted, 11:21. Third Period--Carr, assist by Hicks, 3:05: Jameson, assist by Pope, Patrick, 7:21: Pope, assist by Patrick, 8:27. Penalties--McGinness (body check in center zone), McGill (board check), Poupore (high stick), Munro (roughing), Emerson (roughing), Allen (leg check), Guy (hooking). Referees--Hugh and Lefevre. Time--three 20 minute periods...
...second line will have Joie Catlin at the pivot with George Kenty and Freshman Jack Carver on the wings. Freshman Jack Carver on the wings. This trio is the one unit which was able to stay with the speedy Redmen in the defeat here last Friday. Bob Cowley, the intermediate player who has been a sensation in recent games, will be added to the roster to complete the squad...