Word: build
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...raised about $2,000. The college gave them the use of the room now known as Harvard 2, originally the old Physical Laboratory and later the Botanical Laboratory. Formerly a somewhat dismal place, it has been retinted, and is now most attractive. The room is furnished with large tables, build around the iron supports, chairs and shelves, and will accommodate conveniently about 100. On the shelves are already about 150 volumes of the most essential books, and before the end of the week this number will reach...
...trustees of Cornell have voted $20,000 to build an annex to the gymnasium...
...rather interesting fact has come to light, explaining how Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg was led to leave her recent bequest of $220,000 to Harvard College. It seems that it had been her intention to build an observatory in Central Park, New York City, in honor of her late husband. The memorial was to be magnificently built and equipped. In talking over her project with Professor Josiah P. Cooke, head of the chemistry department, Mrs. Fogg learned that she would be unable to build, with the money she had for the purpose, an observatory as thoroughly and finely equipped...
President Hyde of Bowdoin College, and the professors of the Maine Medical School issue an appeal to citizens of Maine and other friends of the medical school for $50,000 to build and equip a new medical building in Portland, and an equal sum for laboratory work...
...committee on the new Yale launch have not been able to secure a suitable launch already built, and have directed Messrs. Reilly and Crowley of Brooklyn to build a new boat. Mr. Samuel Ayers, the Bay Ridge launch builder, has the contract for building the hull, and the boat is to be in readiness for the practice pulls of the crew in the harbor by the middle of May. The contract calls for a 52-foot launch that will steam 14 knots an hour for 90 miles. The new launch will be 52 feet long, about the same length...