Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a great furore among the students at present for pieces of the "fence," and almost every room contains one or more pieces of it. Many students have their class pictures framed with the unpolished wood...
...used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material has been but little used as yet in this vicinity, and the house of Dr. Bradbury, at the corner of Marlboro and Exeter streets, is almost the only example. The bricks are laid in red mortar, and mottled terra cotta will be extensively used in the decoration of the interior. The basement is of rock-faced brown stone, and dark purple Maine slate will be used to cover the roof, while the copings...
...additions to the Agassiz and Peabody Museums, for which the foundations were laid before the close of last term, have been pushed forward so rapidly during the summer that they are now almost ready for roofing. This makes a great advance toward the contemplated union of the two buildings, though the missing corner will probably not be supplied for several years. The extension of the Peabody Museum is about forty feet in depth, and will be devoted mainly to exhibition rooms. The addition to the Agassiz Museum is 110 feet long, and will be used for botany, geology, and physical...
...School of Law, nor proportionately to the advances made by the undergraduate departments at Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such a vital factor of undergraduate existence elsewhere, is entirely lacking. But this can hardly explain the almost stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging...
...team that will represent the United States in the cricket tournament with Canada will be chosen almost entirely from Philadelphia amateurs...