Word: build
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania has been soliciting subscriptions to build an athletic club-house on Franklin Field. Over one-half the $600,000 required having been subscribed, it is believed that the success of the project is assured...
...contract has been made for its erection and no plan drawn up giving details; but it is the intention of the committee in charge to build it four stories high and of brick with stone trimmings. The upper story is to be a hall, with the capacity of seating 250 persons. The lower stories will be divided into reception rooms and apartments for the meetings of the different religious societies. There will be two entrances in the centre of the building; one opening on the street the other on the yard. Not only have the class-mates of Phillips Brooks...
...situation of the building has been criticised by some as being dangerously near the baseball diamond. The fact that it is 450 feet from the home plate is enough to allay such fears. Subsequently it will be surrounded by paths and trees and will look very attractive. In fact the whole situation of Soldiers Field will be improved, as the Park Commission have definitely decided to build a driveway along the shore line and the city of Boston has taken 20 feet for the widening of North Harvard street, which will be begun next summer...
...buildings to be erected, it is in the first place necessary to improve the present locker building and to build a cage for the use of the nine. It is hoped that enough money can be raised for a baseball pavilion to be placed behind the backstop, and also for small locker houses beneath the seats of the football field for the greater convenience of the players. The steel seats now on Holmes Field will be moved over during the summer to form the side seats for both fields, and money must be raised to build new steel ones...
...general and sustained interest in its helpful work which would accrue from a large number of contributors. It is earnestly to be hoped therefore that both individual and concerted action may be taken by students and graduates to procure the sum, estimated at $50,000, necessary to build, equip and partially endow the Harvard Infirmary...