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...bracing partly in and one coat of varnish on. There are many original features in the bracing. The outriggers will be tied together by means of diagonal wooden stays fastened with brass joints to the out rigger timbers. In Blaikie's boats built last year there was a similar cross bracing tried, but it was made of steel strips laid across the seat bracers from one outrigger to the other. Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks he will gain in lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead...
...shell for the freshman crew which has arrived is much similar to those of previous years. It is about sixty feet long and was built at Troy N. Y., by Waters...
...following candidates for the Yale nine have been measured for suits: Calboun, '91, Cushing, '91, McBride, '90 S., Dalzell, '91, Poole, '91, Graves, '91, N. McClintock, '91, Sturtevant, '91 S., McClung, '92, Owsley, '92 S., Bowers, '93, and Lockhart, of the Law School. The uniforms are similar to those of last year. Calboun will play second base, McBride first, and Owsley third; McClung, shortstop; Cushing, Dalzell and McClintock in the outfield, and Bowers, Sturtevant, and Poole will catch. It is tolerably certain that Stagg will pitch...
...Conrt, of the District and Circuit Courts, and of the Court of Claims; Governor and Vice-Governor of States; Judge of State Supreme Courts; Major-General U. S. A., and those of higher rank (not by brevet); Rear-Admiral U. S. N., and those of higher rank; offices of similar grade, and honorary appointments under foreign governments...
...undoubtedly stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good pieces of work with less expenditure of time by the student than would the foundation of a prize to be competed for by essays written expressly...