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...WRIGHT, Secretary at large, 409 S. Spruce...
...recently been dropped and those who are in training at present are as follows: From '91; Barnes, Childs, Crawford, Cushing, Dunnell, Forsyth, Graves, C. Hall, Harvey, Hedges, F. Huntington, Hurd, Knox, W. McClintock, Morehead, Thurber, Treadwell, Twombley, Walcott, Wright, and Young; from '90 Sheff: Cheney, Griggs, Roby, Isham, and Spruce. There are besides, Dalzell, Poole, N. McClintock, McBride, and Dickerman, who are practising with the 'varsity nine. These men have all had a great deal of experience, and the nine when finally chosen will be a strong one and a powerful opponent...
...practice boat used by the Cambridge (Eng.) University eight is clinker built, on a lighter style than the eights usually used as practice boats, and is made of spruce. She is fitted with all the latest improvements, and may be termed a racing boat...
...ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers, and beaded inside and outside with tarred spruce and hemlock 6in.x1in. Length of fencing, 2,762ft.; length of water pipe, 1,580ft.; line of field, 3 dig. west of north. Money spent (approximately): Original purchase, $21,000; expenditure, $13,000. Total...
...lecture room, and those portions of the floors of the central part of the building that lie over the two recitation rooms, will be deadened on the under floor by laying cement mortar, and covering the whole with stout manilla paper. The under floors are to be made of spruce plank, and he upper of hard pine; all the doors will be made of ash. In the rooms destined for experiments in magnetism, all the door frames, window frames, and all framing and construction whatever, will be put up with brass, bronze, copper, zinc, or bell metal nails, or screws...