Word: design
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of th canoe club, held were adopted. This constitution is modelled after that of the American Canoe Association, with such slight changes as are necessary to adapt it to college requirements. After some discussion as to the design of the burgee to be adopted, Messrs. Frothingham, '84, and Frye, '86, were appointed to secure a design. Messrs. Frothingham, '84, and Nutter, '85, were elected members of the executive committee, of which the commodore is chairman. The club now numbers 15 members, and bids fair to become a permanent and popular institution...
...Columbia Baseball Association gives shingles to its members, which are very tasteful in design...
...title page candidly informs us that the contents are designed "for the use of the collegiate youth," a design which we sincerely hope was realized in fact. In the first place, we learn that the academic year was divided into four terms, instead of three, as is generally the custom in this country. College opened on the tenth of October and closed for the year on Monday next after the seventh of July, at which time something like our present Commencement exercises took place...
Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $290,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...
...architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member of the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects. He has had great experience in the design and construction of war ships for the British and foreign navies, and also of mercantile vessels. He investigated the causes of the disasters which befell the Daphne and Austral; and upon his evidence the rulings were based at the official inquiries in both cases. The new professor is the first...