Word: procession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Through the generosity of Harvard graduates in New York who subscribed $25,000, the new University boat house has been made possible and is now in process of construction. The Newell Boat Club and the University crews will use it. The location of the building is a short distance above the Boylston Street bridge on the Brighton side of the river. The foundations have been in for some time and the framework is now almost entirely in place. Unfortunately the work has been delayed by the slowness in securing material, and the building can not be completed by the first...
When the long telescope now in process of construction is completed, it will be tried first at Cambridge and afterward sent to Jamaica, where a site in the western part of the island suitable for an observatory was selected last year by Professor W. H. Pickering. After observations have been made there, the telescope will be removed to Arequipa, Peru...
...follows: Stroke, C. B. Roberts; 7, J. S. Bent; 6, L. Warner; 5, E. George; 4, D. Roberts; 3, P. Adams; 2, F. G. Jackson; bow, J. L. Peabody. The other men at the Weld will be graded this week into second, third and fourth crews. The process of grading the men at the Newell has not begun yet. So many more Freshmen are rowing at the Weld than at the Newell, that arrangements have been made to transfer a number of them to the smaller club. The transfer of membership will be without expense and will take place immediately...
...Riverside Recreation Grounds which have been in process of construction for a year or more will be ready for use on April 1. They are situated in Weston directly opposite the Riverside Station of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and cover about forty acres extending for half a mile along the river bank. The buildings now completed provide a large number of dressing rooms, lockers and ample bathing conveniences, a hall for gymnastic instruction, bedrooms, a restaurant and parlor, and racks for 150 boats. Other buildings will contain bowling alleys, and a hall for music and dancing. There...
...providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater, and in the second trial the longer speeches will bring out capabilities in sustained work and rebuttal. The final step in this weeding out process in its character of a regular debate, is calculated to be a sure test both of ability in presentation and rebuttal. On the whole then although the plan may need modification in certain details, it promises to justify itself in furnishing training, in bringing out the different sides of the question...