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...Weld launch "Veritas" arrived last week from the Morris Heights shipyard in time for the rowing on Thursday. The cradle in which she is taken out of the water was laid beside the Weld boat-house and the launch itself moored by the coal wharf opposite. She has proved satisfactory in all but two particulars -- in turning she requires more room than was expected, and in starting she is not quick to gather headway, which often allows a crew to get out of reach. Her wake, however, is slight and does not seriously bother passing crews...
...main activity of the association is its city mission work. This is divided into three parts: The T Wharf Reading Room, the Boston Industrial Home on Davis street, and the Chinese Sunday School in the Congregational House. The room on T Wharf is supported by money from the Port and Seaman's Aid Society...
...give up the North End Mission. The work, therefore, will confine itself to three branches. Of these there are: The Davis Street Home for the unemployed, the Chinese Sunday School for the instruction of Chinamen in the English language and in the Bible, and the Sailors' Home on T wharf. Directors for these branches of work have not yet been appointed...
...Harvard Christian Association's reading room at "T" Wharf will be conducted this year on an entirely new plan. The men who have agreed to aid in the work have been divided into squads, one of which will be in attendance at the reading room every day. Musical entertainments will be given, probably on alternate Saturday evenings, beginning the latter part of next month. In addition to the musical part of the programme, addresses will probably be made by members of the Faculty...
...FITZ.ALL STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING.- On Friday afternoon, June 3d, there will be an excursion down Boston harbor to visit the "Main Drainage Works," including the settling basins and pumping station. The city steamer "Cormorant" will leave the wharf just back of the ship "Minnesota," near the Congress street bridge, at 2 o'clock. The excursion will be very interesting. All students in engineering are invited...