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...shell designed for the University crew by Clinton H. Crane, and now being built by Davy, is nearing completion. The boat is one foot longer than that lately built for the Freshmen, and three feet longer than the standard length, though the width has not been changed. Its dimensions are: Length, 64 feet 1-2 inch; beam, 23 inches; depth amidships, 9 1-2 inches; at bow, 5 inches; at stern, 4 inches. It is slightly fuller than the old model, with more flooring. The increase in fulness is at the bilge with an inch more camber in the stern...
...eclipse of the sun this morning will be partial over Cambridge shortly after nine o'clock. The path of total eclipse, which is but fifty-four miles in width, extends from Mexico across the United States to Norfolk, Va., and ends at Thebes, Egypt. The shadow will begin over Mexico soon after eight o'clock, and traveling at an average rate of twenty-seven hundred miles an hour will reach Egypt about half-past eleven...
...stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width of the boat and is devoted to the steersman, so that there is no obstruction. Both cockpits are finished in white ash. The seats are slatted and so arranged that they can be taken out of the boat instantly. She is divided with four steel watertight bulkheads. Her rudder, with brass...
...first half mile the course follows the centre of the channel thus giving every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet; 1 1-2 mile, 2250 feet; 2 mile (directly opposite United States naval station), 1300 feet; 2 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 3 mile, 2300 feet...
...weeks are now nearly completed. The bulkhead along the river front has been extended to the east, and the ell which was at the back of the house removed to the east side of the main building and placed in line with it. A piazza of the same width as that of the main building but with no roof has been built in front of the ell and another float 47 feet long by 20 wide, placed. Thus the eights will have a float of their own and the difficulty of carrying the shells through the crowded main building which...