Word: building
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confined to the small rooms in University, with a small laboratory in the cellars directly beneath. After some years, the friends of the college began to realize the importance of the work which Professor Cooke was carrying on, and the very inadequate accommodations that were furnished for a successful building up of the department. The result was that by their generous contributions, enough money was raised to build Boylston Hall This was in 1859 and the lecture room in upper Boylston with a seating capacity of two hundred, was thought to be amply large for the accommodation of any class...
...rumor that a new shell has been ordered from Ruddock is without foundation. Ruddock has written that he will not be able to build an eightoared shell this year...
...University of Pennsylvania base ball team which was to have been completed during the holidays, was found at the last minute to come under the law which forbids the erection of wooden structures within the city limits, and it is, therefore, necessary to wait until a permit to build can be secured from the Department of Public Safety. No difficulty is expected in this respect, as there are no building near at hand, and the structure itself is not an extensive...
...stopped to think of the evils which attend the system of private "tutoring" as it exists at Harvard. To all such students we recommend these editorials. We have now the right to expect in the Monthly a continuation of the good work it has done in its attempts to build up an enlightened public opinion among students...
Question: "Resolved, that the Government should build and supervise large irrigation works in the West...