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...current number of the Engineering Journal contains the following articles: "Modern Stage Setting in Shakesperian Plays," by F. S. Brown; "Simplicity of Method in Elementary Dynamics," by E. V. Huntington '95; "Superheated Steam for Steam Turbines," by G. H. Moyer '99; "Draught," by K. S. Dow; Directory of Graduates of the Engineering Department, by Professor I. N. Hollis...
Work at forced draught seems, in the case of the Lampoon contributors, to bring out their best powers. Certainly the last Lampoon,--another number in the rapid series of issues which seem to be making up time for the long gaps of the winter--is extraordinarily good. The skill with which the centre page drawing of "The Out-door Plays" suggests in a very few lines the expressions of at least two of the players would do credit to a professional artist. In fact all the drawings are good and the reading matter in general quite their equal...
...naphtha launch is being built by Seabury, at Morris Heights, New York, to be used next summer in connection with the surveying camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire. The boat will be forty feet long with a beam of eight feet and a draught of twenty inches. It will have a speed of nine miles an hour. During the past winter, a new ice-house and a cold storage plant have been built near the lake, and a stone pier extending from the camp to the lake. With these improvements, the camp will be better able to carry...
...month instead of $5. When the reform administration of Mayor Strong went out of office the tariff went back to the old schedule." And Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst says, "the pressure of strict enforcement causes the fires of blackmail to burn as with a forced draught and only doubles the inducements for blackmail." The second moral evil which would accompany an attempt at strict enforcement, is the increase in those places where liquor can be legally sold on Sunday, the Raines Law hotels. "The Liquor Problem," a work prepared under the direction of President Eliot, James...
This occasion of the "draught of fishes" was not the first time Jesus had met Simon Peter and his companions. There on the shore of Galilee he had found them before and talked with them, but they, never realizing the scope and meaning of his message, had heard, and gone back, as though nothing had happened, to their old way of life. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught," he said...