Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bridge in America is the straight Warren girder bridge. In Europe, the single bow-string bridge, arched on one side, and the double bow-string bridge, arched both top and bottom, are more common. The lecturer concluded by showing photographs of a large number of bridges, including those at Brooklyn, Harlem, Poughkeepsie and Niagara, besides several in Scotland and France...
...Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn, editor of the Christian Union and pastor of Plymouth Church, has been asked by Prof. Peabody and the Preachers to the University to spend an hour or two at Wadsworth House 1, where students may visit him. He will be there to-day, Wednesday, from 9-11 a. m. Dr. Abbott is widely known for his wisdom and breadth of views, and many students will welcome this opportunity of knowing...
Work on the new library for Yale, to be built from funds presented by Mr. Chittenden of Brooklyn will be begun this spring. The contract has been awarded to a New Haven firm, and in the contract there is a stipulation to the effect that the building shall be ready for occupancy by May, 1889. Before the new library can be commenced, the two old buildings which are on the site of the new library must be removed. They will be sold at auction within a few weeks. There have been no material changes in the plans of the building...
...games to held in Brooklyn on the seventh of April by Company A of the twenty-third regiment, there will be ten events open to entries from college men. These events include the following: fifty yards dash, handicap; 220 yards dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; two mile bicycle, handicap; quarter mile run, handicap; potato race, scratch; one mile walk, handicap; 220 yards hardle; running high jump, the handicap being limited to three inches; intercollegiate tug of war. Gold and silver medals will be awarded as prizes in the contests. In the tug of war, the winning team alone will...
...very large congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths...