Word: models
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Telegraph operatives are skilled workmen who cannot safely be removed. Hence the proposed system would be a valuable model of a nonpartisan civil service.- Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements...
...soldiers' monument will soon be erected on Cambridge common. The model has already been made, and represents the Genius of Liberty, or America, seated in graceful and majestic attitude, her right hand holding a sheathed sword, while in her left is held a laurel wreath...
...week beginning April 2nd. At this fair is to be a "'varsity booth," and an eight-oared shell is to be voted to the most popular college. The shell has been ordered from Waters, the boat-builder, who agrees to furnish "a first-class eight-oared shell, latest model, for a crew averaging 150-165 lbs." The boat is to be "thoroughly seasoned, filled with latest improvements, hull to be commenced at once, the rigging to be subsequently fitted to whatever crew may become owners, as ordered by later specifications." This is Waters's agreement, and he further promises...
...athletics the men are working hard. The new base-ball cage is a great addition, and a model of completeness. In it is room for regular batting and battery work, throwing to second, sliding bases, and in fact, the work there is nearly as good as out-of-door practice. The whole inside is encased in wire netting, so that the batting can be as hard as out of doors. A rope netting separates an alley for extra battery work. Ferguson of the Philadelphias is coaching the men, and a very heavy batting nine is looked for. King...
...desired end has arrived of itself. And how does it find us? It finds us up abreast with Harvard, Yale and Columbia. a university of 1000 men, with a good gymnasium, with an athletic council out of debt, an eight oared shell of first-class build and model already paid for and unequalled facilities for rowing. With far less material in former years, we have crossed the line with twelve college crews astern, we have rowed the greatest of crews, Oxford; we have filled our library so full of trophies that some have to be rolled up and tucked away...