Word: english
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incumbent this year of the scholarship offered by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, with a stipend of $600, is W. B. Blake S.'06, formerly instructor in English in the University. The appointment to this fellowship is made by the French Minister of Public Instruction on the recommendation of the President of Harvard University...
...minor place, and even now the interest shown in it is not as great as its advantages would warrant. As a form of exercise and as a method of developing distance men, cross-country running has long claimed more attention than it has received. In meets with English teams our track athletes have invariably been deficient in the distance events, and although this may depend partly upon conditions of climate and temperament, we should not confine ourselves to events in which we have always excelled. Any innovation such as the race with Yale is sure to be an incentive...
Yesterday afternoon a scrub crew tried out the new English shell, taking a 10 mile paddle up the river beyond the Watertown Arrenal. The members of the crew found difficulty in getting used to the thole-pin rowlocks and short slides which mark the rigging of an English as compared with an American boat. The shell rolled badly and the men failed to get together, so that the boat spaced poorly...
...Sims, the well-known Putney boat-builder. It is 63 feet in length, 18 inches longer than the shell used at New London last June; and 24 1-2 inches in breadth in-board, one-half inch broader than last year's boat. The seats, according to the English custom, are placed alternately on either side of the centre, each being three inches from the middle line. This makes possible the use of shorter out-riggers, thus diminishing the amount of power lost by the play of the out-riggers. The riggers in use on the English shell are only...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "English Influence on German Poetic Diction in the Eighteenth Century." Professor Walz. Common Room, Conant Hall...