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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Little's Block will be erected before next September on Holyoke street behind Dunster Hall. A well is now being bored on the lot to supply water for Dunster, Little's and the new swimming pool. As soon as this work is completed the new building will be begun. It is to be L-shaped and will extend across the south end of the lot and have a ninety foot front on Holyoke street. The gymnasium, 22 by 35 feet, will be at the west end of the south side and next to it will be placed the two squash...
...Work was begun yesterday on a skating rink which the Athletic Committee will build on Soldiers Field across the roadway from the new boat-house. It will be rectangular in shape, 400 by 125 feet, and the abutment of the roadway will from one of the long sides. Two hockey rinks, each 125 by 58 feet, will be fenced off at the east end and the remaining space, 284 by 125 feet, will be left open. The rink is to be flooded to the depth of one foot with water supplied from a fire faucet in the boat house...
Work on the addition which is to be built on the north side of Austin Hall will be begun next spring or early in the summer. The building expenses will be paid from the surplus earnings of the Law School. Although the full details of arrangement have not yet been made, it has been decided that the size of the addition will be about the same as that of the present building. It will be ready for occupancy by September...
Preparations are being completed for a new archaeological expedition to Central America, and the exploration of ruined cities in that region, begun by the Museum several years ago, will be renewed on a somewhat different plan and a more extensive scale...
...dormitory adjoining Blair Hall, has been completed, and the building will be ready for occupation at the semi-annual room drawings in February. The erection of Dodge Memorial Hall, which, with Murry Hall, will be the home of the Philadelphia Society, the religious organization of the university, has been begun and considerable progress has been made. The building is of Brown stone, designed in the English collegiate Gothic style of the fifteenth century and will cost $50,000. It will be ready...